>I have been investigating a problem in which there has been a dramatic > core size (complete program size) of a program running on a IA-64 >machine running kernel version 2.4.21-4.0.1 (A redhat advanced server >distribution) compared to other 64-bit architectures like amd64 and >EM64T. There has been an increase of around 20% of the size.
Itanium instruction set is not as compact as some other architectures, so the same program will typically require more bytes of code. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/