Subject: Re: Opteron
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/03/2004 14:57:55
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Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <200402031256.i13Cu13p004853@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>,
> Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> >Does port-i386 run on Opteron? How much bigger is amd64 code compared=20
> >to i386?=20
=20
> Yes. I don't understand what is the meaning of bigger in this case. The
> kernel code or the userland code?

I read "binary code" i.e., compiled object code as 64-bit platforms
have usually around twice as big binaries but amd64 is known to violate
this rule.

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Christian

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