On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 04:09:54PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> I'm able to reproduce the speedup with the provided benchmark on an Apple
> M1 Pro (which appears to have the required instructions). There was almost
> no change for the 512-byte case, but there was a ~60% speedup for the
> 4096-byte case.
>
> However, I couldn't produce any noticeable speedup with Heikki's pg_waldump
> benchmark [0]. I haven't had a chance to dig further, unfortunately.
> Assuming I'm not doing something wrong, I don't think such a result should
> necessarily disqualify this optimization, though.
Actually, since the pg_waldump benchmark likely only involves very small
WAL records, it would make sense that there isn't much difference.
*facepalm*
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