Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > Dropping CPUs without native atomic operations / without a way to do tear-free > 8 byte reads would make several substantial performance improvements easier, > while not really dropping any relevant platform.
Hmm, can we really expect atomic 8-byte reads on "relevant" 32-bit
platforms? I'd be on board with this if so, but it sounds a bit
optimistic.
regards, tom lane
