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Philipp Marek | 29 Dec 12:14

Binary size on ia64?

Hello developers!

Looking at http://packages.debian.org/sid/fsvs I see that the binary size of 
fsvs is 276 kB on amd64 ... but 504 kB on ia64!

Is that just the bigger instruction lengths, or what else? Can somebody 
explain me the difference?
(Yes, I looked at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Differences_between_AMD64_and_Intel_64 - 
but I haven't found something related)

Regards,

Phil

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Gunter Ohrner | 29 Dec 12:46

Re: Binary size on ia64?

Am Samstag, 29. Dezember 2007 schrieb Philipp Marek:
> (Yes, I looked at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Differences_between_AMD64_and_Intel
>_64 - but I haven't found something related)

I cannot answer your original question, but you were looking at the wrong 
comparison. This article compares the AMD and Intel implementations of 
the AMD64 / EM64T instruction set, which is "just" an extension of the 
traditional x86 instruction set and completely different from the IA64 
architecture instruction set (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64).

However, I do not knows eigther architecture sufficiently well to be able 
to explain this size difference.

Greetings and a Happy New Year!

  Gunter

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