From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Dec 19 15:58:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9625C37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:58:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE6643EDE for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272182A7EA; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: db@traceroute.dk Cc: ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory permissions In-Reply-To: <200212182322.gBINMuhi019124@smtp020.tiscali.dk> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:58:14 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20021219235814.272182A7EA@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org socketd wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > http://developer.intel.com/ > > > > Look for the SDM. > > ok, thanks :-) > > > > What are the alternatives to ia64? > > > > Stick with 32-bit. AMDs Hammer. Yet-another-64-bit-processor. > > NUMA/clustering externsions. I don't know... > > Stick with 32-bit? Can't stop progress and I'm looking forward to 64-bit > with the improved design and read AND execute permissions ;-) Well, a certain cpu manufacturer would like you to believe that 32 bits ought to be enough for anybody (except big iron servers) and that the true path forwards is hyperthreading in order to increase instructions-per-clock. > Thanks for your help! > > br > socketd > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message