On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 23:26, George France wrote:
> I do not expect that it will be noticeable for most applications, but I
> expect the binaries to be larger, which may be a problem for those with 16MB
> of flash.
Maybe. I'd have thought that the size difference will probably be lost
in the noise. The main difference is going to be moving more
instructions into load delay slots, which isn't something you'd normally
want to do at the expense of code size. I suppose the area where you
might see code bloat would be additional alignment; I don't know offhand
how much of that XScale calls for.
> I suspect that the handhelds.org distributions will remain armv4.
> This does not preclude the possibility of an additional armv5
> distribution.
Well, we had similar kinds of discussions within Debian over splitting
armv3 and armv4 into separate archives and decided it probably wasn't
worth it; I suspect that the armv4->armv5 differential is going to be
even smaller than the armv3->armv4 differential in most cases.
That said, I suppose the handhelds.org distributions do operate under
tighter space constraints, and have rather fewer packages to deal with,
so maybe the outcome will be different. If anybody actually feels like
performing some measurements on the various options, I'd be interested
to see the results.
p.
Received on Tue Jul 09 22:55:04 2002
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