Re: debian archive disk space requirements.
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 04:27:57PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> writes:
> > [resorted by size]
> > > architecture | size
> > > --------------+------------
> > > i386 | 3378532922
> > > ia64 | 3394287226
>
> > And people allways say that 64 Bit archs need much bigger executables.
>
> And ia64 was the biggest on the list, despite having 600 fewer packages
> than i386 according to Marcelo's followup post. So what was your point
> Goswin?
Just saying that bit size has not much to do with code size. The
opcodes available have more impact, or so it seems.
MfG
Goswin
Reply to: