| To: | Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> |
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| Subject: | Re: 64-bit and N32 kernel interfaces |
| From: | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> |
| Date: | Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:10:51 +0200 (MET DST) |
| Cc: | Hartvig Ekner <hartvige@mips.com>, "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>, Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>, Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| In-reply-to: | <20020905145954.GA17383@nevyn.them.org> |
| Organization: | Technical University of Gdansk |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| Sender: | linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org |
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > No - the point is that all data types have the same size in N32. It > was created explicitly as a transitional sop for people who didn't want > to fix their code, but wanted a performance increase from their 64-bit > hardware. Well, what's the performance increase of n32 over o32? The increased number of argument registers? I doubt it's noticeable in most cases. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + |
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