Does Oracle use FPU or Integer on the CPU

From: bd <rad_at_earthling.net>
Date: 1997/06/30
Message-ID: <5p8qun$ca6_at_news.metrobbs.com>#1/1


Does Oracle take advantage of FPU or Integer performance of a CPU. Is it architecture dependent? That is for IBM RS6K - the latest Power2 chip has great FPU performance but the PowerPC has better Integer performance than FPU on the same CPU. Is Oracle compiled differently for Power2 vs PowerPC to take advantage of the CPU in the best possible way? Received on Mon Jun 30 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST

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