On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Luke Lonergan wrote: > > Overall - I'd say that the BSD routine is showing the best overall results > when the scale test is included. The qsortG routine has some significantly > better performance in certain cases at smaller sort set sizes - it could > probably be improved for better L2 use, but BSD is already there. > > Based on this it seems like we should expose the option to choose the BSD > qsort routine at configure time. >
Before we pin down this, I hope more extensive tests on various platforms could be done. So we could give some suggestions when we should enable the "--enable-bsdqsort" option. I can post a result on a SunOS machine (but the problem is that many ppl share this machine) and a windows machine. Regards, Qingqing ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
