Hi all,
One of our customers has pointed out that GCC 7+ has a reasonable large number of additions to their optimization algorithms and this customer was wondering if the MonetDB R&D community is aware of these compiler improvements and what their combined effect is on the performance of MonetDB. This customer seems to be contemplating to adopt the build process of MonetDB into their own build & deployment pipelines. So they are interested in the most optimal build signature for MonetDB on their Centos environment.
Somebody already pointed out that given the kernel architecture of MonetDB, there is a chance that for instance, (new) inner loop optimizations can be useful for MonetDB since we put quite some effort into deciding which specialized algorithm to use for a particular relational algebraic operation before we dispatch the workload to the designated tight and specialized inner loop that does the actual work.
Is anybody aware of existing evaluations/benchmarks related to different compiler, compiler settings and architectures/instruction set extensions? Or is it planned? Or should it be planned :)
Kind regards,
Aris