Re: [suse-sparc] 64 bit Kernel 32 bit userland.

From: Fredrik Lundholm (exce7@ce.chalmers.se)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 13:13:36 PST

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:13:36 +0100
From: Fredrik Lundholm <exce7@ce.chalmers.se>
Message-ID: <20020218221336.A16041@ce.chalmers.se>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] 64 bit Kernel 32 bit userland.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:26:36PM -0000, Andrew Hooper wrote:
> Thanks very much..
> So there is no advantage to using 64 bit maths operations for example?

Yes, 64 bit integer math is much faster on 64 bit naturally.
Floating Point is already using wide arithmetic (even in 32 bit mode).
(unless doing single precision calculations)

/wfr
Fredrik

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