Re: CISC TO RISC Increased Program Size

At 11:20 AM 4/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>We are in the process of migrating from a Model 300 CISC to a Model 170
>RISC.  I just loaded my first program to the RISC box and noticed that
>the program object size went from 47,616 k to 114,688 k.  This is more
>than double in size.  Is this typical?  Will all of the program objects
>increase this much in size?
>
Absolutely typical.  If you carefully read the Roadmap, this is described.
Programs grow when going from CISC to RISC by 2 to 4 times.  Every other
object on the system grows slightly, because the page size has increased
from 512 bytes to 4K.

Al




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