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From: Sven Hartrumpf <hartrumpf@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Emacs 28.1 built with x32 ABI outperforms x86-64
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:50:21 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220408.185021.179167342.hartrumpf@gmx.net> (raw)

Dear Emacs users.

With the new release of Emacs, I tried to build it with the x32 ABI.
I succeeded for the first time (gave up with earlier OS versions) and
it even worked without any problems (Ubuntu 21.10, gcc 11.2).

A small benchmark ("make check" followed by reproducing all .elc files)
outperforms the equivalent x86-64 version by 8 %.
Memory usage is almost half of x86-64, when opening files of several 100 MB.

Limitations:
- x32 has a hard memory limit of 4 GB.
- To avoid building too many dependencies for x32, I used the following
  configure line: ./configure --with-sound=no --without-dbus --without-x
- I had to build 12 x32 versions:
  gnutls autoconf ncurses nettle libidn2 libtasn1 p11-kit libgmp libtool libffi guile-2.2 gc
  (Ask me if you need more details.)

Greetings
Sven



             reply	other threads:[~2022-04-08 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-08 16:50 Sven Hartrumpf [this message]
2022-04-08 17:17 ` Emacs 28.1 built with x32 ABI outperforms x86-64 Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-04-10  6:02   ` Sven Hartrumpf

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