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From: Matthias Bethke <matthias@towiski.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:14:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060728211445.GA785@huxley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C8BB28.5080202@mid.message-center.info>

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Hi Alexander,
on Thursday, 2006-07-27 at 15:10:00, you wrote:
> If not, then you won't use those advantages either. Somebody correct
> me, but if you want to WORK with this machine (ie. not fiddle), I'd
> suggest to stay 32bit. Or what advantages would 64bit provide?

Depends a lot on the code[tm]. Some things benefit a lot from a decent
number of registers. OTOH, fiddling with pointers in memory slows things
down as compared to 32bit.

cheers!
  Matthias
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-28 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-27 12:29 [gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core Thierry de Coulon
2006-07-27 12:41 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-27 13:04   ` Thierry de Coulon
2006-07-27 13:10     ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-27 13:21       ` Thierry de Coulon
2006-07-28 21:14       ` Matthias Bethke [this message]
2006-07-27 17:40 ` Alan

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