On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:04:59PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > I was just wondering, if there was then any n64 distro out there... > To the extent I've look, seems not, :-)
Well, the fuloongs I have don't need more virtual addresses (1GB of RAM, I won't run programs that want 6GB virtual addresses, for example). And having the programs storing 64-bit pointers instead of 32-bit, makes them use more ram for certain data structores. If I remember correctly, I tried the memory usage of i686 vs x86_64 of the same version of firefox+libs (only the architecture in difference), and the x86_64 was taking 50% more RAM. Additionally, this year started the development for the amd32 ABI in binutils. That is x86_64 instructions and 32-bit addresses. At least me, I was waiting for this. :) I even was running for a while a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit OS where I had only some specific programs built for 64-bit - those who needed more virtual address space. Regards, Lluís. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en.
