Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Does this article have any relevance to Firebird?
Author Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
On 15/06/2010 01:48, unordained wrote:
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> From: "Steve Summers"<sesummers@...>
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>> http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327
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> http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?page=ibp_expert2
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> Firebird seems (to me) obsessed with fitting things together on pages for faster
> access from disk, which is at least a related concept. Maybe you could provide
> insight on how to apply any new findings to the case at hand?
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Some operations, like unpack records and keys are CPU bound, so I expect
that asynchronous IO (done right) could improve (how much, who knows)
the performance.


Adriano