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How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL

How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL

Posted Oct 13, 2012 7:35 UTC (Sat) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
In reply to: How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL by amit.kucheria
Parent article: How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL

Not just the ARM world, really; consider the turbo mode available with newer Intel and AMD processors. If you're doing work that runs better with fewer, faster threads rather than more slower ones, you'd want to aggregate the workload onto fewer cores and let the CPU ratchet the clock up.


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