Re: Multiple virtual address mapping for the same code on IA-64

Alan Cox
2005-08-18T09:54:38Z

On Mer, 2005-08-17 at 12:52 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > compared to small, this may be the reason why amd64 is the fasttest
> > 64-bit process ?

> Itanium processors are the fastest 64bit processors at any given clock
> frequency.

Perhaps, and the two statements don't contradict. All he was doing was
asking a very sensible architecture question to understand why the IA64
binary was so big.

> Please do not make such inflammatory statements on the
> ia64 list.

Since when has asking sensible questions been "inflammatory statements".
If thats how you treat the people actually porting to IA64 then its out
of order, at least for linux-kernel, which is where you cross posted.

Alan