A very good meeting in Istanbul is drawing to an end. People from Monty Program, Facebook, Galera, Percona, SkySQL, and other parts of the community are meeting with one foot on the European continent and another in Asia to discuss all things MariaDB and MySQL and experience the mystery of the Orient. At the meeting… Continue reading The future of replication revealed in Istanbul
Month: October 2010
Dynamic linking costs two cycles
It turns out that the overhead of dynamic linking on Linux amd64 is 2 CPU cycles per cross-module call. I usually take forever to get to the point in my writing, so I thought I would change this for once 🙂 In MySQL, there has been a historical tendency to favour static linking, inpart because… Continue reading Dynamic linking costs two cycles