James Knott said the following on 07/23/2013 10:07 AM:
Take a look at file sizes in 32 & 64 bit systems. You'll likely find the sizes are similar.
Nice theory. I did that for UNIX on the PDP-11 and the Vax shortly after the firm I was working at acquired a 780. I saw a 10% to 30% "bloat". Yes, as John says, some of this is due to compilers, and a lot is dies to the idea that C has - or had - of integers being interchangeable with pointers and calculating addresses. Yes, now we have compilers that are smarter, and also programmers that are, sometimes, smart enough to specify 'short int' and 'long int'. But not everyone is that smart. Or anal. -- All governments are more or less combinations against the people. . .and as rulers have no more virtue than the ruled. . . the power of government can only be kept within its constituted bounds by the display of a power equal to itself, the collected sentiment of the people. -- Benjamin Franklin Bache, in a Phildelphia Aurora editorial 1794 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org