On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:28:29AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> Matthew Garrett wrote: >> >> > [...] >> >So, overall, x32 is only really beneficial for embedded platforms rather >> >than general purpose ones. As Josh says, if there's sufficient interest >> >then it could potentially be implemented as a separate architecture and >> >spend some time in secondary, but I don't know that there'd be a huge >> >benefit to Fedora to spend much time on it. >> >> x32 makes intel be faster Atom Z2460 [1] > > I can't find any x86_64/ia32/x32 benchmarks in that article? Regardless, > I'd agree that x32 is potentially useful on heavily resource-constrained > interactive devices like phones. The quesiton is whether it's useful for > any of the platforms that Fedora targets. Virtualisation is something I > hadn't considered and it may be that there are benefits there, but I'd > still appreciate some real figures before encouraging people to spend > time on it.
I believe you would lose a lot of the advantages of the memory reduction by the use of memory dedupe/merging/compression on the host hypervisor which makes some of the memory saving advantage less of a win. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
