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- From: john@sekrit.WPI.EDU (John Stoffel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: alpha memory requirements (vs vax) ?
- Date: 9 Nov 92 10:15:05
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- References: <1992Nov6.172941.28490@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- In-reply-to: kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com's message of Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:40:04 GMT
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- >>>>> On Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:40:04 GMT, kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser) said:
-
- Peter> --
- Peter> In article <2973@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM
- Peter> (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.
-
- Peter> This breaks down for the move from RISC ULTRIX to DEC OSF/1 for
- Peter> Alpha AXP systems, because DEC OSF/1 has shared libraries, and
- Peter> because the move is from RISC to RISC.
-
- It's been pretty good here (we're a Beta site) for compiled binary
- sizes. You really don't notice shared libraries for most code. Where
- it really shines is for very grahics intensive code. We had one guy
- who went from a 1.2 Mb on disk program to 90K on the Alpha.
-
- Other programs don't offer as much of a savings.
-
- John
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