On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:10:28 -0800 (PST) "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > A lot of people are confused on what x86-64 is. Programmatically, > it's just another memory model. That I actually knew before. However, your write-up provided me with a much better understanding of what I actually got for my nickel when I installed F8 x86_64 the other day. > > Is there any disadvantage to this patch? > If it works as designed, no, it should be a great advantage. It does indeed sound that way to me. Frankly, when I finally got DOSEMU compiled on this machine I expected to see some drag comparerd the i386 performance in this particular application. I didn't expect to see a 13x slowdown. Again, I can see the reason behind it (even more clearly now that I've read your little write-up) so it looks like this patch will be a huge advantage for a lot more stuff than just DOSEMU. I've learned a lot from reading this and I'm truly glad that I started this thread and asked these questions. Thanks! -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
