It won't be faster by any means, but it should definitely be incorporated if any format changes are made (like Tom already suggested).
I think it's important we gather at least 2 more things before making any calls: * Josh tests w/ cache aware patch, which should confirm cache aware is indeed prefered * Tests with toast hacked to use lz4 instead, which might ease any decisions -- Arthur Silva On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Arthur Silva <arthur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The difference is small but I's definitely faster, which makes sense > since > > cache line misses are probably slightly reduced. > > As in the previous runs, I ran the query a dozen times and took the > average > > after excluding runs with a high deviation. > > I'm not surprised that it hasn't beaten HEAD. I haven't studied the > problem in detail, but I don't think that the "cache awareness" of the > new revision is necessarily a distinct advantage. > > -- > Peter Geoghegan >