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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system?
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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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