On 03/09/2009 05:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > It's not so much about *bigger* registers as *more* registers. The ideal performance-wise for most us is probably to compile using the new registers and instructions, but use 32-bit pointers and alignment. But that is yet another ABI/architecture to support ... -- --Per Bothner per at bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/