On Friday January 23 2009, David Bolt wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Randall R Schulz wrote:-
On Friday January 23 2009, David Bolt wrote:
The code itself may be bigger but, looking at the sizes of applications in /bin on both a 32bit and 64bit system, and the libraries in /lib abd /lib64, I wouldn't say the sizes are anything more than about 10% bigger.
Use the "size" command, not the file size.
Okay, here's the output for the first 20 files in /bin for a 64bit and 32bit 10.3:
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Yes, they are bigger, taking up more space on disc and more memory, but nowhere near double the space. So, while the 64bit binaries are close to 10% bigger and you'd probably need at least 10% more memory to avoid using swap[0], that isn't really "substantial" especially since you seem to be assuming that they are going to require double the memory.
When I improve a metric of my software by 10%, that _is_ substantial, and conversely if I make some measure 10% worse. You're also ignoring dynamically allocated memory, which is very common in contemporary appliations, often far exceeding the statically allocated space requirements that are shown by the "size" command. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org