[Roland and I are bouncing a proposal back and forth...] Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 4) analysis of big-picture performance issues, if any (does 64-bit run > faster, or slower? maybe run a some test of boot time analysis.)
IIRC, the SPARC impact was "doesn't run faster" combined with "takes more disk space", rather than "runs significantly slower". > 5) a rough estimate in the increase of the size of the media/miniroot > for the SPARC port While interesting, this is IMO not an architectural issue, not part of this case (which isn't proposing to make a complete 64-bit miniroot), and with the way we are going with IPS and the size of disks (CD, DVD and rust) this is probably not a practical concern even if it ends up doubling the size (which I doubt it will). -John
