On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:27:44AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: >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 /usr/bin/e* on i386 vs x86_64 is 17432 vs 12440 kB => about 40% bigger. so indeed that's a fair bit larger :-) I didn't think it was quite as bad as 2MB/s though, maybe 4. I'll dig my Indys out of storage and give them a whirl. >day). Also, Indys don't support a large enough memory configuration >that 64-bit would be worth it anyhow. indeed they don't. do you get access to more registers or more efficient instruction sets like you do on x86_64? >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. fair enough. cheers, robin
