From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Parallel for in instant, Useful strategy ?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:13:29 +0100
Date: 2013-01-25T16:13:29+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd83btpbgexb.vhrhk8kxh4ys.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:46:27 -0800 (PST), Patrick wrote:
> I am not really suggesting a rewrite of sqlite but I am wondering, with
> the rise of multicores computers, whether commands might be better written
> as parallel programs.
No. Multicore architecture is a shared-memory one. As such it has an
advantage only in the cases involving computations. In other cases (e.g.
persistence layer) the effect on performance is difficult to predict. It
can well be negative.
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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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