Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

[Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>]

I've only done custom kernels on 32bit x86 headless server
> > platforms, so maybe mine would double in size if I were doing X86-84
> > kernels due to 8 byte instruction words vs 4 byte words,

I expect that this is merely terminology, but I don't think that 64-bit 
x86_64/amd64 architecture exactly has eight byte instruction words; 
rather it has 64/128-bit registers.  What mainly changed is the addition 
of many more general purpose registers, and the support for 64-addresses 
(i.e. pointers.)

You are correct that virtually all 64-bit executable text binaries are 
much larger as a result.

Mark Allums