On 03/02/2019 09:05, druck wrote:
> On 01/02/2019 12:27, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> I dunno if ARM code is more compact than *86 but I ended up with a Pi
>> Zero running Raspian lite, and, after all needed was installed, an SD
>> memory footprint of 22Mbyte in /boot and 1.4Gbyte in /.
>
> Depends which sort of ARM code you are talking about.
>
> aarch32 ARM mode is less dense than x86 as it is fixed width 32 bit
> instructions, where as x86 is variable width. Thumb mode is fixed 16
> bit, so more dense for non trivial code. Thumb2 which is actually what
> most compilers emit is 16/32 mixed, and more comparable to x86, although
> the x86 being a mem/mem rather than a load/store architecture generally
> results in better code density, at the expense of performance.
>
> aarch64 tends to be more dense than aarch32 ARM mode due in some part to
> the larger register bank, but mainly due to some of the many new
> instructions. Its also more dense than AMD64.
>
> ---druck

Looking down the process list it is also instrucytove to see how fewe
priocesses weer actally ruinng,. A Lot of power and RAM goes running a
desktop methinks


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