Re: AXLE Plans for 9.5 and 9.6 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 22 April 2014 10:42, Jov <amutu@amutu.com> wrote:

> what about runtime code generation using LLVM?
> http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/02/inside-cloudera-impala-runtime-code-generation/
> http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Wanderman-Milne-Cloudera.pdf

Those techniques have been in use for at least 20 years on various platforms.

The main issues PostgreSQL faces is supporting many platforms and
compilers, while at the same time supporting extensible data types.

I believe there is some research work into run-time compilation in
progress, but that seems unlikely to make it into Postgres core.

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