On Apr 13 2005, Brad Boyer wrote: > Also, ppc code is on average bigger than x86 code. It's just a property > of the instruction set. The x86 uses variable sized opcodes, so some > stuff is only one or two bytes. The ppc instruction set uses exactly 4 > bytes for everything.
Yes, that I knew (I tried learning some basic ppc assembly to help with the xine team to make it work slightly better in my G3 powered iBook), but I didn't think that the difference would be that much. Now that you mention it, x86 has opcodes that can be just 1 byte long. OTOH, PPCs have much more registers, which help a bit when calling functions (I think, but perhaps not the sufficient to compensate for the body of the functions). Anyway, I guess that it is time to give the linux-tiny patch a try. I hope that at least some parts of it work on PPC. For the readers who may not be aware, the patch is available from <http://www.selenic.com/tiny-about/>. Thank you very much for your comments, Rog�rio. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
