Re: [HACKERS] Base64 decode/encode performance

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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:44:00AM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
> Marko Kreen wrote:
[...]
>> - decode does not seem to handle architectures that segfault
>> on unaligned int32 accesses.
>
> Out of curiosity - does this problem exist on any platform for which
> PostgreSQL is currently ported and supported?

HP PA is one of them. Besides, some others hide that behind a painful
(more than a factor of 1.3 -- we are talking software emulation here)
performance hit. More modeern architectures (Alpha, Itanium, IA-64) take
this route.

Regards
- -- tomás
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