On 2018-01-15 19:30, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:56:14 +0000 (UTC)
> Kiwi User  wrote:
>
>> Assuming that RPi binaries for the same set of programs are about the
>> same size as as the X-64 ones, that implies that very much less file
>
>  ARM binaries are quite a bit more compact than X86-64 binaries
> which is why ARM hardware manages with less memory than PC hardware.


I always have a hard time accepting that.
ARM is RISC, x86 CISC. I would assume one needs more RISC instructions
to achieve the same CISC instructions. So RISC binaries would be bigger.

But I guess single x86 instructions are bigger then ARM instructions.
And large parts of code are not even using the specialized subset of CISC...

always assuming same pointer size (32 bit vs 64 bit)

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