Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 10:52:00 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arch questions Message-ID: <3690FFC0.5030B5C8@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041155450.37756-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> If your userland is 32bit, then it's much easier not to have to port that
> huge section of code. The only reason it might help us is that since
> intel is 32bit, it may ease the porting by a very small margin, but this
> doesn't seem to be worth the performance losses i mentioned above,
> especially in our case when we don't have ANY sparc bits at this point in
> time.
>
> am i missing something? I would like to aim for a 64bit userland to max
> out the performance of the work.
A good idea, I believe. You might want to check if the FreeBSD-Alpha port
already has made much of userland 64-bit clean. I assume so, but have no
first-hand knowlege of this.
--
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