x32 psABI draft version 0.2
Jan Hubicka
hubicka@ucw.cz
Thu Feb 17 15:45:00 GMT 2011
> > According to Mozilla folks however REL+RELA scheme used by EABI leads
> > to significandly smaller libxul.so size
> >
> > According to http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1177 the difference is about 4-5MB
> > (out of approximately 20-30MB shared lib)
>
> This is orthogonal to x32 psABI.
Understood. I am just pointing out that x86-64 Mozilla suffers from startup
problems (extra 5MB of disk read needed) compared to both x86 and ARM EABI
because x86-64 ABI is RELA only. If x86-64 ABI was REL+RELA like EABI is, we
would not have this problem here.
Honza
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