On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Roland McGrath wrote:
x86 is unlike other architectures because 64-bit also has twice as many registers as 32-bit. So you get to trade off the benefits of register allocation across more registers against the memory/cache footprint of 64-bit pointers.
For what percentage of code is that an appreciable advantage? regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@xxxxxxxxx Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: QOTD: "If he learns from his mistakes, pretty soon he'll know everything." -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
