[gambit-list] Benchmark results for dependency graph calculation by gsc (i586, x86-64, and x32)

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Tue Sep 10 11:08:50 EDT 2019


On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 10:12:30AM +0200, Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
> John wrote, 2019-09-09 13:15:
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 10:55 AM Sven Hartrumpf <hartrumpf at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >  > Of course one important drawback is that you are limited to 32 bit
> >  > references and headers, so only 4G RAM can be accessed (at best) and
> >  > objects are limited to 16M bytes in size (so forget about reading large
> >  > files into a string or computing pi to 100 million digits!).
> >
> >  Thanks. I forgot to mention these limitations.
> >
> > In addition: x32 exists only on Linux AFAIK and Linus wants to deprecate
> > it.
> 
> The proposal came from Andy Lutomirski, and Linus has a justifiable interest
> to remove parts from Linux if possible. But they were (are) open to hear arguments
> for x32; Linus wrote:
> 
> "I'm not opposed to trying to sunset the support, but let's see who complains."
> see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/10/1151

Just what *is* x32?

-- hendrik




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