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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G6ZkZ-0005ey-SO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:20:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6SLHIap000893; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:17:18 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6SLEe6O009612 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:14:40 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2006 21:14:40 -0000 Received: from dslb-088-065-071-082.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO huxley.mblan) [88.65.71.82] by mail.gmx.net (mp043) with SMTP; 28 Jul 2006 23:14:40 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428074 Received: by huxley.mblan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3E336AFB77; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:14:45 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:14:45 +0200 From: Matthias Bethke To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core Message-ID: <20060728211445.GA785@huxley> References: <200607271429.07658.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <44C8B469.4030004@mid.message-center.info> <200607271504.35082.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <44C8BB28.5080202@mid.message-center.info> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44C8BB28.5080202@mid.message-center.info> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 8eca5874-cbee-425f-93af-d09ff14a45ae X-Archives-Hash: d8eef7823d0ff2415e525ddaca0f058b --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEyn5FSNkXAPrDdmURAq9SAKDItrS/KI1dlUYGKtA0h4YPxuojCACguSI1 JLtP8jThZfi0C6tbMw+iupc= =reUm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list