Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 00:07:24 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
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Subject: Re: PG 16 draft release notes ready
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On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 12:14:04PM +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 11:26 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > > Allow xid/subxid searches to use vector operations on x86-64
> architectures
> > > (Nathan Bossart)
> > >
> > > When moved to the performance section, it would be something like "improve
> > > scalability when a large number of write transactions are in progress".
> >
> > Uh, again, see above, this does not impact user behavior or choices.  
> 
> So that turns a scalability improvement into "source code"?
> 
> > I assume this is x86-64-only.
> 
> Au contraire, I said "For anything using 16-byte vectors the two architectures
> are equivalently supported". It's not clear from looking at individual commit
> messages, that's why I piped in to help.

Okay, updated text:

	Allow xid/subxid searches to use vector operations (Nathan Bossart)

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