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Re: Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle

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Post by hermitcrab » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 8:28 PM UTC

A vague article.

With one sentence per line.

Most annoying.

Re: Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle

#12

Post by Validark » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

Thank you.

For wasting my time.

The only thing someone could learn from this is that CPU registers can be 8 bytes.

Re: Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle

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Post by _3u10 » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 8:37 PM UTC

RealityVoid wrote: post #9

charcircuit wrote: post #7

>A CPU register is naturally 8 bytes in size What does naturally even mean here. How is a 64 byte register's (zmm0) size any less natural?

Or a 7 byte register, if you really want to get freaky.

What about 36 bit registers

Re: Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle

#14

Post by galkk » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 8:40 PM UTC

Looks like an AI rewrite of something better.

Re: Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle

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Post by ranger_danger » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 11:32 PM UTC

> A CPU register is naturally 8 bytes in size, and if Oracle extracts 8 bytes from two strings for comparison, then the comparison requires fewer registers and fewer CPU cycles.

Isn't this just a typical SIMD optimization that tons of projects use?