From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 9 10:37: 1 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 3D2D337B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.baerum.kommune.no (mail.baerum.kommune.no [195.134.40.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509E243E09 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:36:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Idar.Tollefsen@baerum.kommune.no) Received: from mail.baerum.kommune.no (unverified) by mail.baerum.kommune.no (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.10) with SMTP id for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 19:32:47 +0200 Received: from SA-D01-Message_Server by mail.baerum.kommune.no with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 12:09:05 +0200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.5 Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 12:08:49 +0200 From: "Idar Tollefsen" To: Cc: Subject: Re: Compaq-CC, the next steps.... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 >> FreeBSD and Linux don't use the same ELF format, do they? > Yes. OK. Thanks for clearing that up. >> =CCf that's the case, is there really a speed increase to be >> gained? And even if it is, do we really want the FreeBSD ports >> collection to prefer building Linux/Alpha binaries over native >> binaries on the Alpha? > You seem to believe that the Linux compatability module is an > emulator. It's not. It's an ABI. There are no performance > penalties for running Linux binaries (other than those imposed > by use of the Linux system interfaces by virtue of their design). Well, yes, I suppose I was under the impression that it was an emulator. Although I have seen references to the contrary before, this is the first time someone has actually explained the workings of it. Thank you. - IT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message