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Re: Spinlocks on SGI's

Robert E. Bruccoleri <bruc@stone.congenomics.com>

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From: bruc@stone.congenomics.com (Robert E. Bruccoleri)
To: mathijs@ilse.nl (Mathijs Brands)
Cc: scrappy@hub.org, bruc@acm.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-28T02:14:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Dear Mathijs,
> 
> Wouldn't it be best to build IRIX 6.2 binaries? Those should run properly on
> IRIX 6.2 and anything newer. Of course, having both IRIX 6.2 and 6.5 binaries
> wouldn't really hurt...

It's not feasible to do this, nor is it worth it. Irix 6.5 is much
more reliable than Irix 6.2. --Bob

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