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- From: kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser)
- Subject: Re: alpha memory requirements (vs vax) ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.074004.23143@vbohub.vbo.dec.com>
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- Organization: DEC Technology Integration Group
- References: <1992Nov6.172941.28490@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <2973@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:40:04 GMT
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- In article <2973@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM
- (Clarence Dold) writes:
-
- > ... experience in moving code from a Motorola
- > 68040 to the Motorloa 88100 RISC set shows a substantial change in the
- > requirement for disk space for executables, as well as run-time memory.
- > I recall a comparison of ~20% for like code.
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- This breaks down for the move from RISC ULTRIX to DEC OSF/1 for Alpha AXP
- systems, because DEC OSF/1 has shared libraries, and because the move is
- from RISC to RISC.
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- ___Pete
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