Re: [HACKERS] tweaking MemSet() performance - 7.4.5

2004-10-01 Thread Marc Colosimo
On Sep 29, 2004, at 7:37 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Karel Zak wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 23:23 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the memset bypasses the cache then the following access will cause a cache line miss, which can be so slow that using the faster memset can result

Re: [HACKERS] tweaking MemSet() performance - 7.4.5

2004-09-18 Thread Marc Colosimo
On Sep 17, 2004, at 3:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Marc Colosimo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm using 7.4.5 on Mac OS X (G5) and was profiling it to see why it is SO SLOW at committing inserts and deletes into a large database. One of the many slowdowns was from MemSet. I found an old (2

[HACKERS] tweaking MemSet() performance - 7.4.5

2004-09-15 Thread Marc Colosimo
HI, I'm using 7.4.5 on Mac OS X (G5) and was profiling it to see why it is SO SLOW at committing inserts and deletes into a large database. One of the many slowdowns was from MemSet. I found an old (2002) thread about this and retried the tests (see below). The main point is that the system m