Re: What exactly is our CRC algorithm?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Subject: Re: What exactly is our CRC algorithm?
Date: 2014-11-11 23:50:43
Message-ID: CA+TgmobKOZVv-u0zF1PbTtPTz9o+UhC8Z6ZSkuRvxJWkZioK8Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> At 2014-11-04 14:40:36 +0100, andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com wrote:
>> On 2014-11-04 08:21:13 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> > Are you going to get the slice-by-N stuff working next, to speed
>> > this up?
>>
>> I don't plan to do anything serious with it, but I've hacked up the
>> crc code to use the hardware instruction.
>
> I'm working on this (first speeding up the default calculation using
> slice-by-N, then adding support for the SSE4.2 CRC instruction on top).

Great!

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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