Josselin Mouette <[email protected]> writes:
> Le mardi 23 février 2010 à 20:32 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit :
>> Anyway, there are often good reasons to use x86 on modern hardware
>> (think about laptops and smaller VPSes).
>
> You mean, like saving memory?
>
> Wait⦠wouldnât you save more memory by using shared libraries and PIC
> code?
Long live x86_32-linux-gnu (64bit code with 64bit longs and 32bit
pointers). There is a patch for gcc for this. Now we just need to start
a debian port. All the speedup of x86_64 without the memory overhead for
pointer.
MfG
Goswin
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