Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> My current philosophy with this stuff is to favor simplicity,
> maintainability, portability, etc. over extracting the absolute maximum
> amount of performance gain, so I think we should proceed with the simd.h
> approach. But I'm curious how others feel about this.
+1. The maintainability aspect is critical over the long run.
Also, there's a very real danger of optimizing for the specific
hardware and test case you are working with, leading to actually
worse performance with future hardware.
regards, tom lane