From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Anthony Presley <anthony@resolution.com>
Subject: Re: 64-bit vs 32-bit performance ... backwards?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:16:35 -0700
Message-ID: <200606121616.36009.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150151282.14661.42.camel@tigger>
References: <1150151282.14661.42.camel@tigger>
Anthony,
> I'm curious if anyone can back this up .... or debunk it. It's about
> the polar opposite of everything I've heard from every other database
> vendor for the past several years, and would be quite an eye-opener for
> me.
I generally see a 20% "free" gain in performance on 64-bit (Opteron,
actually). Possibly EDB is still using ICC to compile, and ICC is bad at
64-bit?
I have seen some applications which failed to gain any performance from
64-bit, but have never personally dealt with one which was slower.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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