Re: Broken build on macOS (Universal / Intel): cpuid instruction not available
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
Cc: Tobias Bussmann <t.bussmann@gmx.net>, Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>,
Jakob Egger <jakob@eggerapps.at>,
pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2026-05-08T13:54:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM Tobias Bussmann <t.bussmann@gmx.net> wrote: >> analysed how useful these universal builds are given the lack of >> optimisations for one of the architectures, but at least they are possible >> again, as they were previously. > Taking a quick look at the configure output you provided, certain > optimizations will be lacking on both architectures: Yeah. I think the main practical problem will be the lowest-common-denominator CRC code. However, AFAICS a universal build would have been selecting that from day one, so if the performance has been acceptable so far it won't be any worse in v19. regards, tom lane