On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:05:17AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
Heh...I hope you are prepared for a significant slowdown if you end up trying to run n64 userland on such a machine.
why's that?
Mostly, 64-bit binaries are much larger than 32-bit. Consider that the scsi controller in an Indy gets about 2mb/sec throughput MAX (on a good day). Also, Indys don't support a large enough memory configuration that 64-bit would be worth it anyhow.
What you would *really* want on such a machine would be n32 userland. You get full 64-bit instructions, but the binaries aren't huge.
Steve
