"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> The results were interesting. While the small overlap between
> samples from the two builds at most levels means that this was
> somewhat unlikely to be just sampling noise, there could have been
> alignment issues that account for some of the differences. In
> short, the strict aliasing build always beat the other with 4
> clients or fewer (on this 4 core machine), but always lost with more
> than 4 clients.
That is *weird*.
> Also, is there something I should do to deal with the warnings
> before this would be considered a meaningful test?
Dunno ... where were the warnings exactly? Also, did you run the
regression tests (particularly the parallel version) against the
build?
regards, tom lane