| To: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
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| Subject: | Re: Latest sources from CVS. |
| From: | Dominic Sweetman <dom@algor.co.uk> |
| Date: | Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:18:22 +0000 |
| Cc: | Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>, "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| In-reply-to: | <20021206180241.A7492@linux-mips.org> |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| References: | <20021206135110.GD23743@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> <Pine.GSO.3.96.1021206165118.26674N-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl> <20021206164558.GH23743@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> <20021206180241.A7492@linux-mips.org> |
| Sender: | linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org |
Ralf Baechle (ralf@linux-mips.org) writes: > Absolutely: > > [ralf@dea linux-sgi-2.4]$ mips64-linux-size vmlinux > text data bss dec hex filename > 1978296 317344 156224 2451864 256998 vmlinux > [ralf@dea linux-sgi-2.4]$ mips64-linux-size vmlinux > text data bss dec hex filename > 1761168 317344 156224 2234736 221970 vmlinux > > The first kernel was built as 64-bit ELF using 64-bit pointer and everything > 64-bit. The second kernel was built using the -Wa,-32 trick. That's over > 12% of bloat for full 64-bitiness which brings zero gain. Percentages are dangerous things. This is 220Kbytes of memory, which currently represents an investment of about $0.05. There may be embedded linux applications which care about 5c cost, but they probably won't use any variety of 64 bits... |
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