On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM Pickett, Eshe N <eshe.n.pickett@intel.com> wrote:
> This patch series introduces Intel AVX2 and AVX-512 optimized ASCII validation
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> for PostgreSQL's UTF-8 processing pipeline, providing significant performance
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> improvements for text-heavy workloads through vectorized string validation.
We already use SSE2/Neon here, and and a good compiler can unroll 2
vectors to work on 32-bytes per loop iteration. Profiles of COPY FROM
should not show ASCII validation to be a large part of the profile
anymore. The bottlenecks are most likely elsewhere. I don't believe
this is worth it.
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John Naylor
Amazon Web Services