From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ICnmx-0000X0-V7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:36:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6N2XWp1017468; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:33:32 GMT Received: from smtp43.singnet.com.sg (smtp43.singnet.com.sg [165.21.103.151]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6N2XTtZ017386 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:33:30 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.101] (bb219-75-19-136.singnet.com.sg [219.75.19.136]) by smtp43.singnet.com.sg (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6N2XRe7019664 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:33:27 +0800 Message-ID: <46A41379.4060004@singnet.com.sg> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:33:29 +0800 From: "P.V.Anthony" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32 or 64 for web server and mysql References: <46A0B6C6.5000803@singnet.com.sg> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b45708cd-7107-4c7f-8464-033b60d8477a X-Archives-Hash: 16225e6b7af6655b551d9d95dfed0284 On this day, 21-July-2007 2:08 AM, Duncan wrote: > Finally... 64-bit /can/ be more secure from a hardware perspective. > There's certain features built into the 64-bit extensions that improve > resistance to buffer overflows and the like, or more precisely, compiling > a hardened profile, as you may be doing on a server, doesn't cause the > performance penalty on amd64 (generically, so em64t also) that it does on > x86. If you are going to be using a hardened profile, I'd strongly > recommend going 64-bit for that reason. Thank you to all for sharing the opinions. I have found them very useful. P.V.Anthony -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list