Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:24:58 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com>
To:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/obj required space
Message-ID:  <20010213062458.A72052@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7BFA@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:46:38AM %2B0100
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7BFA@l04.research.kpn.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote:
> I knew that gcc wasn't terribly efficient on Alpha, but this is silly. More
> than twice the required disk space for a world build?

Don't blame it all on GCC.  Don't forget your data segments are twice as
big for int's.  Pointers are twice as big, etc..  This is a 64bit vs.
32bit issue.  Plus you don't get perfect allocation on the disk -- ie,
you have fragmentation.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010213062458.A72052>