Re: Spinlocks and CPU Architectures

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Spinlocks and CPU Architectures
Date: 2005-10-11 19:21:11
Message-ID: 200510112121.11998.peter_e@gmx.net
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> Tom is suggesting having different behaviour for x86 and x86_64. The
> x86 will still run on x86_64 architecture would it not? So we'll have
> two binaries for each OS, yes?

A quick glance around tells me that most free operating systems are
treating x86 and x86_64 as separate platforms anyway, so having
different code for each is not a problem.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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