Just out of curiousity, has anyone documented how much of a performance
hit there is with the i386 code enabled in the kernel?
Regards,
Glen Gross
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > That's one of the big reasons that we're 4.x based right now rather
> > > than 3.x based, despite 4.x's slightly larger memory footprint. That
> > > and 4.x's much better c++ compiler.
> >
> > Well, Warner, I've never done embedded systems. So, tell me, do they
> > actually use any C++ code in embedded systems? C++ has a rather high
> > overhead as far as disk space & memory goes. I would imagine that 99%+
> > of embedded systems do not use C++ code except perhaps for a very small
> > amount of the code.
>
> You have a very vivid imagination.
>
> Unfortunately, imagination isn't very helpful here; the whole idea is to
> do stuff that's actually useful, not just what we'd imagine might be
> useful. And in that regard, a *lot* of application programming (which
> includes programming for embedded systems) is done using c++ compilers.
>
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