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Re: Performance difference 32bit/64bit userland



On 02/07/2017 07:22 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> ppc64el is different since it is targeting systems where the applications
> are expected to need a lot of ram, and switching the little endian
> improves performance when working with GPUs (which are all designed
> for the x86 little endian world).  At the same time being able to
> assume power8 as a minimum cpu means you can gain some instruction set
> improvements that normal powerpc can't assume.

Correct. And we can't do 32-bits userspace also, since we do not have a
32-bits little endian ABI. For ppc64el, bi-arch does not seem to be a valid
feature.


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