From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
anton@samba.org, ak@muc.de, davidm@hpl.hp.com,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, ralf@gnu.org, willy@debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again)
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 23:39:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021201233901.B32203@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1038804400.4411.4.camel@rth.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:46:40PM -0800
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 08:46:40PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> X86_64 on the other hand seems to run x86 binaries in a similar
> fashion. I don't know how people currently doing this port intend
> to do the useland, but I bet it would benefit from a mostly 32-bit
> userland just like sparc64/ppc64 does, both in space and performance.
Except that x86-64 binaries get to use 16 more registers, can use
pc-relative addressing modes, and have a sane function calling
convention. So things tend to run a bit faster in 64-bit mode.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-02 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-27 7:42 [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again) Stephen Rothwell
2002-11-27 7:58 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-27 13:00 ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-11-28 5:27 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-27 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-28 5:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-27 8:00 ` David Mosberger
2002-11-27 8:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-27 8:29 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-27 8:46 ` David Mosberger
2002-11-27 9:01 ` Andi Kleen
2002-11-27 9:57 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-27 17:10 ` David Mosberger
2002-11-28 5:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-27 12:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-30 20:34 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-11-27 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-28 5:22 ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-11-28 5:26 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-29 2:36 ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-12-01 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-02 4:46 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-02 4:57 ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-12-02 6:17 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-02 7:39 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2002-12-02 7:44 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-02 7:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-12-02 8:01 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-04 11:22 ` Pavel Machek
2002-12-05 21:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-28 5:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-29 4:45 ` [PATCH] 32 bit consolidation 1/Many (was: [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again)) Stephen Rothwell
2002-11-29 4:52 ` [PATCH] 32 bit consolidation 2/Many Stephen Rothwell
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212011047440.12964-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <1038804400.4411.4.camel@rth.ninka.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-12-02 8:13 ` [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again) Andi Kleen
2002-12-02 8:28 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-02 9:07 ` Andi Kleen
2002-12-02 9:36 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-12-02 17:01 ` Mikael Pettersson
2002-12-02 10:16 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-04 11:19 ` Pavel Machek
2002-12-05 21:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-05 21:21 ` Pavel Machek
2002-12-05 21:22 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-05 21:32 ` Pavel Machek
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