Re: alpha memory requirements (vs vax) ?

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From: Peter Kaiser
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 07:40

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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.

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.

___Pete

kaiser@uniriv.vbo.dec.com
+33 92.95.62.97, FAX +33 92.95.52.00

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