Re: Proposal for enabling auto-vectorization for checksum calculations

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM Andrew Kim <tenistarkim@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've double-checked everything after applying the v9 checksum patches
> and updating pg_filedump accordingly.
> Following your suggestion, I removed the checksum_impl.h include and
> the Assert redefinition, keeping only the port/checksum.h include.
> build compiles cleanly with the new architecture, and pg_filedump
> functions correctly with the AVX2 optimizations.
> If you agree with this approach, I'd like to prepare a patch for
> upstream submission.

Thanks, but there is no action required now. I mentioned some
observations, and I'm going to experiment a bit further.

Also, it's way too early to be suggesting changes to other projects,
since we haven't committed anything yet. Even things committed can
occasionally be reverted before beta 1 anyway.
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John Naylor
Amazon Web Services