| From: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Devulapalli, Raghuveer" <raghuveer(dot)devulapalli(at)intel(dot)com>, "Shankaran, Akash" <akash(dot)shankaran(at)intel(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ants Aasma <ants(dot)aasma(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, "Amonson, Paul D" <paul(dot)d(dot)amonson(at)intel(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Popcount optimization using AVX512 |
| Date: | 2024-07-31 01:05:18 |
| Message-ID: | CA+hUKG+iZe4kZB_XEZXeX8Xr_G4CPbZ_JbhRa3i47XSjfaNDfw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 12:50 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> It's one thing for the avx512 path to have that overhead, but it's
> particularly absurd for pg_popcount32/pg_popcount64, where
>
> a) The function call overhead is a larger proportion of the cost.
> b) the instruction is almost universally available, including in the
> architecture baseline x86-64-v2, which several distros are using as the
> x86-64 baseline.
FWIW, another recent thread about that:
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