Re: Kernel 2.6 for R4600 Indy

[Robin Humble <rjh@cita.utoronto.ca>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:27:44AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
>Mostly, 64-bit binaries are much larger than 32-bit.  Consider that the 
>scsi controller in an Indy gets about 2mb/sec throughput MAX (on a good 

/usr/bin/e* on i386 vs x86_64 is 17432 vs 12440 kB => about 40% bigger.
so indeed that's a fair bit larger :-)

I didn't think it was quite as bad as 2MB/s though, maybe 4. I'll dig my
Indys out of storage and give them a whirl.

>day).  Also, Indys don't support a large enough memory configuration 
>that 64-bit would be worth it anyhow.

indeed they don't.
do you get access to more registers or more efficient instruction sets
like you do on x86_64?

>What you would *really* want on such a machine would be n32 userland. 
>You get full 64-bit instructions, but the binaries aren't huge.

fair enough.

cheers,
robin