Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:38:27PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> Ok, the fact that pointers and long/double variables on 64bit systems do
> take twice as much RAM as on ia32 systems sounds reasonable. Thanks for
> information.
Pointers do. long's happen to be defined as 64bit on x86_64 while they
are defined as 32bit on i386. Any program that uses longs better be
aware that sizeof(int) != sizeof(long) on all systems. doubles are
64bit in all cases as far as I remember. I think there is a new 128bit
floating point format available with 64bit that wasn't there on 32bit
systems. I don't deal with floating point enough to be sure.
> 30% is quite a lot. Can you point me to postings/articles/etc. which
> claim to have discovered this?
Well here is a randomly picked example:
rceng02:~# ls -l /data/.chroot/debian-pure64/bin/ls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85536 Jan 30 2007 /data/.chroot/debian-pure64/bin/ls
rceng02:~# ls -l /bin/ls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 77352 Jan 30 2007 /bin/ls
So /bin/ls appears to be 10% larger.
rceng02:~# ls -l /bin/gzip
-rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 52672 Sep 19 2006 /bin/gzip
rceng02:~# ls -l /data/.chroot/debian-pure64/bin/gzip
-rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 60216 Sep 19 2006
/data/.chroot/debian-pure64/bin/gzip
So /bin/gzip appears to be 14% larger. I seem to recall gzip also runs
quite a bit faster on 64bit.
--
Len Sorensen
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