From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 13 6:25:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A3F37B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:25:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1DEOxg72183; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:24:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:24:58 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/obj required space Message-ID: <20010213062458.A72052@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7BFA@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7BFA@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:46:38AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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