From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQizO-0001EV-0B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:05:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C30EE099D for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6690EE079E for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so1528605eyh.12 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:13:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=NWItW8Q1VnKk0cGDNifoQTBEVBElL/D4DUg4rwJoAFc=; b=d4D1mYCAeSV64J7ZLYEhGWH8s2UtRa2sRzoNoKcsceANjuR/FNvCgIhNxh1p9fH8DM peZ2aItWZ4EoNPacGaWYuewr1VLg/wgmNKdltPYvNuTNlkY3B82mRnb8kKjhN7BCtXpo D20jUIkym+OXroqVQEnxG2XepGAQQJd73ByMo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=Ts17I3KQ/NzyDl4mYCId48VOqveYYuivjRyX84OMFnKlvGnQJEV/xN25P3g+KOKkjM 9mgR9l/zQFLnZImH6wQhvmYRymp9bFp28Ha1m4VE8rM8Js4SreLqmx+bEdOqyYGEmnkF bh2mxHfhOxCuzQ/GjhGTYNAt9yFtzQZIv849c= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.172.65 with SMTP id s43mr1994228wel.14.1291907591366; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:13:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.233.90 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 07:13:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> <20101208180344.eefa3254.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4D002218.9060302@gmail.com> <4D006923.8050609@gmail.com> <4D00A5ED.3070205@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <1463292034-1291895910-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1043132697-@b3.c1.bise7.blackberry> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 07:13:11 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: a582f750-ea1e-4342-87a9-6aece585fc1e X-Archives-Hash: 18461e54f80819d1692e36f1dd9ebde2 2010/12/9 Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski : > Dale, I tell You one thing - choose multilib. This don't do nothing wrong. > You can use 32-bit app compatibility and this don't reduce performance of > overall system. Agreed. I think the only downside is _slightly_ slower emerge times which with modern processors like Dale is going to use shouldn't be much of an issue at all. I don't know of any other negative side effects. Cheers, Mark