On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > I'm only going to support n64 on the DECstation. You are welcomed to do
> > n32 stuff yourself if you want to.
>
> What does N64 on the DECstation better than N32 could do? N32 has
> more compact code, better cache usage and less memory consumption.
Well, as you probably noticed, the DECstation is not a performance
screamer anymore. If I needed a fast system, I'd use something else. I
need a reference platform, though, even if it costs performance.
> > I haven't considered you may mean crippling the available user address
> > space.
>
> IIRC is the maximum of RAM 448 MB on some machines. Actually utilizing
For the record, it's 480MB, actually (15 * 32MB).
> an user address space larger than 2 GB would mean a RAM/Swap ratio of
> about 1:4, IOW, it likely gets unusable slow.
That depends on the utility of swap -- it's usually slow, although not
always.
> Is there any point besides of hack value to use N64 on these machines?
Probably not.
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