On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 01:37:29 (-0500), a wrote: > Thank David and Polyna-Maude! > > it's surprising that "The x64 binary are also somewhat larger than the > i386 binaries" > > i compare some packages of bullseye for both arch, they happen to be > contrary > > though difference is small and IMO has little impact on performance > > firefox-esr for i386: size= 58465416 > > firefox-esr for amd64: size= 55451188 > > gcc-10 for i386: size= 18097884 > > gcc-10 for amd64: size= 16990272
Well, we've gone from ISOs containing different inventories to sizes of packages. I still don't see how that affects performance. All I did was to type ls -l /usr/bin for the two architectures into two xterms in two viewports, and blink-compare them. Some binaries were larger and some were smaller. But let's try running them. I happen to have two freshly installed bullseyes, and neither has run the installed FF before. Their dotfiles in my home directories are close to identical, and their starting pages are blank. i386: VSZ RSZ %MEM PID STAT CMD 1200184 176396 34.9 1603 Sl+ firefox-esr 477488 50140 9.9 1880 Sl+ /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -ch> 467760 34188 6.7 1821 Sl+ /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -ch> 455296 27436 5.4 1958 Sl+ /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -ch> amd64: VSZ RSZ %MEM PID STAT CMD 3082424 408156 2.5 2538 Sl+ firefox-esr 2446004 146664 0.9 2662 Sl+ /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -> 2417628 117508 0.7 2694 Sl+ /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -> 2403264 108072 0.6 2603 Sl+ /usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr -contentproc -> The difference is larger than I thought it would be. Others would have to interpret the actual numbers. The main difference that /I/ notice is the speed, but it would be an unfair comparison, pitching 1.5GHz/512MB with 1GB encrypted swap on 2004-era rust against a multi-core 2.7GHz/16GB with a 2017-era SSD (but no swap). Starting times come out at 3 minutes vs perhaps one second. Cheers, David.
