On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:10:51PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > No - the point is that all data types have the same size in N32. It > > was created explicitly as a transitional sop for people who didn't want > > to fix their code, but wanted a performance increase from their 64-bit > > hardware. > > Well, what's the performance increase of n32 over o32? The increased > number of argument registers? I doubt it's noticeable in most cases. That's a minor optimization. More important is the availability of MIPS III/IV and MIPS64 instruction sets which means 64-bit integer registers and 32 64-bit double precission fp registers. Ralf
