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From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [NOOB ALERT] Use amd64 kernel?
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 15:12:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yf8Ee3QJcUdAdryV@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C3896C04-4902-433D-AE3D-A6E848D18E86@web.de>

On Sat, Feb 05, 2022 at 10:11:47PM +0100, Alexander Shendi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks, but I know I can use the 9pc64 kernel. My reasoning was along these lines:
> 386: 32bit ints + pointers
> amd64: 64bit ints + pointers, potentially a waste for 2G RAM, but more CPU registers in amd64 long mode?
> 

In your normal 9front usage, are you dangerously close to OOM
conditions?  Is your software so meticulously optimized as to care how
many CPU registers are available?  Flip a coin.

khm

      reply	other threads:[~2022-02-06 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-04 19:48 Alexander Shendi
2022-02-04 20:50 ` Amavect
2022-02-04 21:03 ` ori
2022-02-04 21:28   ` Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
2022-02-04 22:52   ` Alexander Shendi
2022-02-04 21:16 ` sirjofri
2022-02-05 17:41 ` Stanley Lieber
2022-02-05 21:11   ` Alexander Shendi
2022-02-05 23:12     ` Kurt H Maier [this message]

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