Date: 03 Jul 2002 17:17:46 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of Alpha binaries Message-ID: <xzpofdo6dt1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <3D231418.1020406@web.de> References: <3D231418.1020406@web.de>
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Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@web.de> writes: > this may be a dumb question, but why are Alpha-binaries so much bigger > than x86-bins? I compared some files in /bin and found that the > Alpha-binaries are at least 30% bigger, sometimes even twice as big. > Is there any (understandable) technical explanation? Alpha is a 64-bit platform, i386 is a 32-bit platform. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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