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From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: <bruc(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>; <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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> We would have to understand how the SGI code is better than our existing
> code on SMP machines.
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I've been searching for data from SGI's Origin presentation to illustrate
what am I saying, this graph only covers Memory bandwith, but take present
that as distance between nodes increase, memory access latency is also
increased:
