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Intel Demonstrates Up To 48% Improvement For AVX-512 Optimized PostgreSQL
With the upcoming PostgreSQL 17 database server release there is some initial AVX-512 optimizations that are looking quite nice according to Intel's findings.
If CPU support for this optimized implementation is detected at runtime, a function pointer is updated so that it is used by subsequent calls to pg_popcount()." Here is the Intel finding over AVX-512 gains for PostgreSQL bit counting on their Xeon processors on-premise and in the cloud: It's great seeing continued new areas where AVX-512 is paying nice dividends for performance from speedy JSON parsing to databases.
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