Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

[Nilesh Govindrajan <contact@nileshgr.com>]

On 07/17/2012 07:19 PM, Leiking wrote:
> 64bit means bugs.?? But I use 64.
>
> 2012/7/17 Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>:
>>
>> On Jul 17, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>> --- >8
>>
>>
>>>
>>> IMO, it's worth the 'overhead' to run 64-bit, if only for the greater
>>> number of GPRs and other architectural improvements. There's honestly
>>> a lot of good stuff in x86-64 beyond the larger address space. The
>>> increased address space also helps long-lived programs avoid address
>>> space fragmentation.
>>>
>>> --
>>> :wq
>>>
>>
>> +1 on architectural improvements.
>>
>>  From a purely data-wise view: with 64 bits, Long Integers will be handled
>> much faster than having to manhandle 2 32-bit chunks of half-integers.
>>
>> Rgds,
>

Bugs. This is why I wanted to get an answer to this question specifically.

I've been using Gentoo since one year and with amd64 only. But recently 
(if you noticed), I'd posted a thread about lot of segfaults.

As much as I was compelled to think that something is really wrong with 
my hardware, a similar segfault bug occurred on an _amd64_ Gentoo VM 
with Linode I manage, that too with a program that had been working ever 
since I installed it, and there were no updates as such.

But from the inputs I received, I think it would be obviously better to 
stay with 64bit.

Is it only me or the ~amd64 branch has become really unstable in the few 
days? (Yeah I know ~amd64 can be unstable to any extent it wants to, but 
just a qualitative question)

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Nilesh Govindrajan
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