From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:49:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640609180849g1f1cb882le265a37fbc4981@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10609180718w301ebaacx89d175031e6774a7@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/18/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-18 14:18 [gentoo-user] 64-bit system? Grant
2006-09-18 11:40 ` Rafael Barrera Oro
2006-09-18 15:10 ` alain.didierjean
2006-09-19 5:36 ` Drew
2006-09-18 15:49 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2006-09-18 16:30 ` Grant
2006-09-18 16:39 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-09-19 5:46 ` Pawel Kraszewski
2006-09-26 15:30 ` Grant
2006-09-28 3:53 ` Drew
2006-09-18 19:46 ` Gian Domeni Calgeer
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