"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> So you can't just claim that using a GPU might be interesting; you have to
> persuade people that it's more interesting than other places where we could
> spend our performance-improvement efforts.
I have a feeling something as sexy as that could attract new developers
though.
I think the hard part here is coming up with an abstract enough interface that
it doesn't tie Postgres to a particular implementation. I would want to see a
library that provided primitives that Postgres could use. Then that library
could have drivers for GPUs, or perhaps also for various other kinds of
coprocessors available in high end hardware.
I wonder if it exists already though.
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Gregory Stark
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