On ons, 2010-06-09 at 09:59 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote: > The most heavily platform dependent part of the code is the spinlock > implementation. You might want to check that it actually uses the > version optimized for your platform, not the (much slower) generic > implementation based on semaphores.
You only get the slow implementation if you configure explicitly with --disable-spinlocks. A toolchain that didn't support spinlocks would fail the build and then the user could use that option to get past that problem. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers