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

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2012, 07:52:08 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan:
>> So the same old query again I guess.
>> What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit
>> processor?
>>
>> I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or
>> = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not wrong.
>>
>> So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit
>> for me.
>
> now that I am home: you believe wrong.
>
> There are many good reasons to go 64 bit. Easier memory managment, more
> registers. Bigger register. Faster math because of the bigger registers.
>
> There is seriously NUL reasons to use 32bit. Zero. Zilch. Why throw away all
> those nice improvements - for nothing in return?
>
> Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by 64bit
> ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit. Those who were troublemakers were
> also unplayable with 32bit codecs. Flash? Just works. Stable? You bet.
>
> The only use case that might come up is wine - I don't know anything about
> that beast. Haven't had any use for it in years.

IME, 64-bit WINE 64-bit works as well as 32-bit WINE...Which is to
say, your mileage will vary based on what you're doing, same as it
always has.

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