Paul Jakma <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? Pretty much everything, actually. The x86 ISA completely sucks. regards, tom lane -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
