On 4/24/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I doubt this is SoC material, simply because the issues have little to
> do with coding and a lot to do with persuading people to drop default
> support for old platforms. Which is not something a student is likely
> to succeed at.
While the student could do some benchmarking on relatively new
hardware and make suggestions, I agree with Tom. Having to keep
support for older platforms doesn't leave much flexibility to change
the defaults.
I just don't see enough work here to warrant a SoC project.
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