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List:       pgsql-performance
Subject:    Re: [PERFORM] anyone tried to use hoard allocator?
From:       Steve Atkins <steve () blighty ! com>
Date:       2012-03-26 16:00:18
Message-ID: 340D90B6-9FA3-4EBA-930A-DECA0CF916CB () blighty ! com
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On Mar 26, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> today I've noticed this link on HN: http://plasma.cs.umass.edu/emery/hoard
> 
> Seems like an interesting option for systems with a lot of CPUs that are
> doing a lot of alloc operations. Right now I don't have a suitable system
> to test it - anyone tried to benchmark it?

It's just another allocator - not a bad one, but it's been around for years. It's
mostly aimed at reducing contention in multi-threaded applications, so
it's not terribly applicable to strictly single-threaded postgresql.

It's licensing is pretty much incompatible with postgresql too.

Cheers,
  Steve


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