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RE: floating point and Sun T2000

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Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 20:07:20 +0200
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Kevin

>My point is that the engine does not have FP underpinnings for scalability.
>You know, those things that happen, uh, like millions of times per second
>like spinlocks, dba hashing, chain walks, etc.

I agree with you that for the engine it isn't a problem.

The only time it's possible to have millions of floating points operations per second is while a nice SUM(amount_sold) on the large fact table is running.

Cheers,
Chris

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