Hi, On September 28, 2013 10:26:33 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-09-28 09:03:53 +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> > the whole point of creating x32 was to benefit from the speed advantages > > of amd64 without having a pointer size of 64 bits. Those speed advantages > > include using more registers, but also using hardware 64 bit long long. > > The speed difference between 32 and 64 bits [ ... ] so it doesn't make > > sense to me to penalize x32 > > I agree. PARI is not the only software that uses GMP. OK, so I may not have been completely clear, but what I was asking is which makes most sense for Debian's GMP package: 8 bytes or 4 bytes. I think what Marc and Vincent are saying is that 8 bytes is the better choice. Did I read that correctly? Thanks, -Steve
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