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 1GPMBK-0000Nn-U9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:41:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8IGe41J017644; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:40:04 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.228]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8IGW3ct030098 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:32:04 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i12so825668wra for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:32:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c4+VQ8r1NOLmAYFPlafx1Mw7TBdkWR3N+FylCUjOWMdQcqVQ3Esn0vH5aJBFT+gGXeM2lcUjfqoGkUty5l8MgZuIm5m7YxrFJWJT4gB7zrWUO2/y3FCYIy9p8ea1ufF3HMt6P90yt+yAt90e0Gire0G9oyk4TMv2XGpPijDRbus= Received: by 10.90.113.20 with SMTP id l20mr4686020agc; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.54.10 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10609180930g589c7d39i7dd3b8363cc57ed6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:30:30 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system? In-Reply-To: <7573e9640609180849g1f1cb882le265a37fbc4981@mail.gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10609180718w301ebaacx89d175031e6774a7@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640609180849g1f1cb882le265a37fbc4981@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: aa89060a-0bf4-4dd2-968b-2115009d8be7 X-Archives-Hash: a27a0f08e53b66f919717f145b477895 > > I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. > > Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the > > drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? > > You'll only notice a speed increase with applications that need to > caculate very large numbers, like encryption keys and certain > scientific apps. Everything else will basically run just as fast in > 32-bit mode as it will in 64-bit. There are exceptions in certain > media encoders that don't have hardware optimizations for 64-bit, that > may actually run faster as 32-bit apps. > > Anyway, I think this article summed it up pretty well: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/199229/ > > -Richard Ok, doesn't sound like too much benefit for me. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list