[nylug-talk] LOWMEM vs. HIGHMEM performance advantage?

[Ruben Safir]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:47:02AM -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, [utf-8] Bryan J Smith wrote:
> 
> > rom: Alex Pilosov <alex at pilosoft.com>
> > > will strongly disagree. 
> > >x86-64 (i will call it x64 and spare me) - is *bad* idea *unless* you
> > > *have* to. because pointers are 64-bit,
> > 
> > Are they now?  Wow! I guess I shouldn't have read those x86-64/IA-32e
> > programmer manuals.
> > 
> > I fully expect an application-level developer to disagree. But anyone
> > who has worked at the system level knows this fact ...
> > 
> > I686: 6 bytes (48-bit segmented)
> > X86-64: 6 bytes (48-bit flat)
> Blah blah blah.
> 
> Bryan, cut the crap, seriously. 


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