On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > I'm only going to support n64 on the DECstation. You are welcomed to do > > n32 stuff yourself if you want to. > > What does N64 on the DECstation better than N32 could do? N32 has > more compact code, better cache usage and less memory consumption. Well, as you probably noticed, the DECstation is not a performance screamer anymore. If I needed a fast system, I'd use something else. I need a reference platform, though, even if it costs performance. > > I haven't considered you may mean crippling the available user address > > space. > > IIRC is the maximum of RAM 448 MB on some machines. Actually utilizing For the record, it's 480MB, actually (15 * 32MB). > an user address space larger than 2 GB would mean a RAM/Swap ratio of > about 1:4, IOW, it likely gets unusable slow. That depends on the utility of swap -- it's usually slow, although not always. > Is there any point besides of hack value to use N64 on these machines? Probably not. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
