From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jul 3 8:17:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14FA37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E32143E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id C211D534A; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:17:47 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Jan Lentfer Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of Alpha binaries References: <3D231418.1020406@web.de> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 03 Jul 2002 17:17:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3D231418.1020406@web.de> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jan Lentfer writes: > this may be a dumb question, but why are Alpha-binaries so much bigger > than x86-bins? I compared some files in /bin and found that the > Alpha-binaries are at least 30% bigger, sometimes even twice as big. > Is there any (understandable) technical explanation? Alpha is a 64-bit platform, i386 is a 32-bit platform. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message