Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Gregory Stark wrote:
>> (Incidentally I'm not sure where 2-5x comes from. It's entirely dependant on
>> your data distribution. It's not hard to come up with distributions where
>> it's
>> 1000x as fast and others where there's no speed difference.)
> So the figure is really "1-1000x"? I bet this one is more impressive in
> PHB terms.
Luke has a bad habit of quoting numbers that are obviously derived from
narrow benchmarking scenarios as Universal Truths, rather than providing
the context they were derived in. I wish he'd stop doing that...
regards, tom lane
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