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PostgreSQL Turns To AVX-512 For CRC32 Computations: Up To 3x Faster
In addition to the recent optional IO_uring support for the PostgreSQL database server on Linux and async I/O batch mode, another exciting performance improvement was merged this week
In addition to the recent optional IO_uring support for the PostgreSQL database server on Linux and async I/O batch mode, another exciting performance improvement was merged this week. Leveraging AVX-512 instructions on capable AMD and Intel processors can lead to some wild performance improvements for the CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path for this popular open-source database. This is another great improvement for the open-source PostgreSQL 18 database server ahead of that next major feature release due out around September.
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