Re: [GENERAL] GCC 4.0 on Mac OS X

2005-05-20 Thread Matthew Hixson
On May 20, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Matthew Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Just wondering if the Postgres hackers have done any performance
measurements on Postgres compiled with GCC 3.x against Postgres
compiled with GCC 4.0.  I'm wondering whether or not the auto-
vectorization stuff in 4.0 provides any performance improvements to
Postgres 8.0.x.
Offhand I'd not expect auto-vectorization to be much help for  
Postgres,
but you never know till you try ...
While cruising the vast and global interweb I found myself here
http://gnu.ghks.de/software/gcc/projects/tree-ssa/vectorization.html
and while that's a bit over my head I gathered that GCC 4.0 would  
provide "more better" performance.
  -M@

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Re: [GENERAL] GCC 4.0 on Mac OS X

2005-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Matthew Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just wondering if the Postgres hackers have done any performance  
> measurements on Postgres compiled with GCC 3.x against Postgres  
> compiled with GCC 4.0.  I'm wondering whether or not the auto- 
> vectorization stuff in 4.0 provides any performance improvements to  
> Postgres 8.0.x.

Offhand I'd not expect auto-vectorization to be much help for Postgres,
but you never know till you try ...

regards, tom lane

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[GENERAL] GCC 4.0 on Mac OS X

2005-05-20 Thread Matthew Hixson
Just wondering if the Postgres hackers have done any performance  
measurements on Postgres compiled with GCC 3.x against Postgres  
compiled with GCC 4.0.  I'm wondering whether or not the auto- 
vectorization stuff in 4.0 provides any performance improvements to  
Postgres 8.0.x.
  -M@

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