Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:19:43 +0200 From: Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of Alpha binaries Message-ID: <3D23160F.4070909@web.de> References: <3D231418.1020406@web.de> <xzpofdo6dt1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav schrieb: >Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de> 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. > > Thanks :-), I knew that, but how does this cause bigger binaries? Sorry, but this really isn't obvious for me, I am not very deep into stuff like this. Thanks, Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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