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 1G65hf-0005pJ-5O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:15:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6RDCQSm023036; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:12:26 GMT Received: from gateway4.delphi.com (gateway4.delphi.com [69.220.142.16]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6RDA3t0002472 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:10:03 GMT Received: from USINKOK-MX04.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.203]) by gateway4.delphi.com (MOS 3.8.0-FCS) with ESMTP id ECW05205; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:10:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.199]) by USINKOK-MX04.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:10:01 -0400 Received: from [10.233.7.145] ([10.233.7.145]) by USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:10:01 -0400 Message-ID: <44C8BB28.5080202@mid.message-center.info> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:10:00 +0200 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060104 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core References: <200607271429.07658.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> <44C8B469.4030004@mid.message-center.info> <200607271504.35082.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> In-Reply-To: <200607271504.35082.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jul 2006 13:10:01.0464 (UTC) FILETIME=[F7E4E780:01C6B17D] X-Archives-Salt: 22df9f2e-233b-496a-8c2c-12c0e777217f X-Archives-Hash: c2daac57d1a591586b3c24bac66f2320 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > I've got 2 GB and it will (have to) stay so Okay, so you won't need one of the main features of 64bit machines - larger addressable space of RAM. Will you do number crunching with floating point numbers or with large integers? 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? Alexander Skwar -- After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true. -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list