Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB 5.6

2011-04-12 Thread Adam M. Dutko
> The AMD and Intel x86_64 chips are quite similar, and most optimisations If I'm not mistaken I think the 64bit instruction set AMD developed was adopted by Intel so this would make sense. > The "Work with Intel" probably refers to the fact that Intel is helping the > work by donating many-core

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB 5.6

2011-04-12 Thread Kristian Nielsen
"Adam M. Dutko" writes: > Does the following item under the Performance section indicate > optimizations for AMD chips are not being added? > > Better multi CPU performance above 16 cores (Work with Intel) No (very unlikely). The AMD and Intel x86_64 chips are quite similar, and most optim

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB 5.6

2011-04-11 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Does the following item under the Performance section indicate optimizations for AMD chips are not being added? Better multi CPU performance above 16 cores (Work with Intel) ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB 5.6

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Laursen
I do not have the perfect solution. The 'forking' means that different vendors will provide versions that add features. Before the forking started you could simply strip out the x.y.z information from SELECT VERSION(). A recnet MariaDB example Now MariaDB has 'virtual columns'. But how I tell exc

Re: [Maria-discuss] MariaDB 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Kristian Nielsen
Peter Laursen writes: > I noticed this on planet.mysql: http://kb.askmonty.org/v/plans-for-56 > > I *again* strongly want to discourage a major version number identical with > a MySQL/Oracle release. MySQL plans a 5.6 too and I believe that there is > already a source-tree available on launchpad

[Maria-discuss] MariaDB 5.6

2011-04-09 Thread Peter Laursen
I noticed this on planet.mysql: http://kb.askmonty.org/v/plans-for-56 I *again* strongly want to discourage a major version number identical with a MySQL/Oracle release. MySQL plans a 5.6 too and I believe that there is already a source-tree available on launchpad. I think I understand that Maria