Re: Sun performance - Major discovery!

Christopher Browne wrote:
> pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > 5) How can I compile for optimum performance?
> >
> > Try using the "-fast" compile flag. The binaries might not be portable to
> > other Solaris systems, and you might need to compile everything that links
> > to PostgreSQL with "-fast", but PostgreSQL will run significantly faster,
> > 50% faster on some tests.
>
> You might also mention something like the following:
>
> If you are compiling using GCC, you will quite likely want to add in
> the "-O2" compile flag.

We already do that by default in current CVS for gcc, and -O for
non-gcc.

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