Re: JIT compiling - v4.0

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-10-06T01:47:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 2:57 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> master q01 min: 14146.498     dev min: 11479.05 [diff -23.24]     dev-jit min: 8659.961 [diff -63.36]     dev-jit-deform min: 7279.395 [diff -94.34]     dev-jit-deform-inline min: 6997.956 [diff -102.15]

I think this is a really strange way to display this information.
Instead of computing the percentage of time that you saved, you've
computed the negative of the percentage that you would have lost if
the patch were already committed and you reverted it.  That's just
confusing.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


Commits

  1. Improve JIT docs.

  2. Add documentation for the JIT feature.

  3. Add EXPLAIN support for JIT.

  4. Add inlining support to LLVM JIT provider.

  5. JIT tuple deforming in LLVM JIT provider.

  6. Add FIELDNO_* macro designating offset into structs required for JIT.

  7. Add expression compilation support to LLVM JIT provider.

  8. Expand list of synchronized types and functions in LLVM JIT provider.

  9. Add helpers for emitting LLVM IR.

  10. Basic planner and executor integration for JIT.

  11. Debugging and profiling support for LLVM JIT provider.

  12. Support for optimizing and emitting code in LLVM JIT provider.

  13. Add file containing extensions of the LLVM C API.

  14. Basic JIT provider and error handling infrastructure.

  15. Add configure infrastructure (--with-llvm) to enable LLVM support.

  16. Add C++ support to configure.

  17. Add PGAC_PROG_VARCC_VARFLAGS_OPT autoconf macro.

  18. Fix VM buffer pin management in heap_lock_updated_tuple_rec().

  19. Allow tupleslots to have a fixed tupledesc, use in executor nodes.

  20. Expression evaluation based aggregate transition invocation.

  21. Perform slot validity checks in a separate pass over expression.

  22. Rely on executor utils to build targetlist for DML RETURNING.

  23. Refer to OS X as "macOS", except for the port name which is still "darwin".