From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SrAqs-0007dQ-QW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:42:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E9C4E077B; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:41:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC62E0732 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so587304bkw.40 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:38:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=QDBWv3eoXDV05zcnHaalc8lEr901hYhVUntymaTQXHs=; b=Yaej0/zqpEC7PVh5mUM6HyZrq1sC4CP942yedEbdnYZPu3zSE7bKCAWDVynKjTHWdm Qxl/Ugrxvo8VbVCkuMoipt77yNesGxuF2mc71RQr+Cm0OD4sq4VEsmOPncx+JEv1omod V6fXuXOpRX8qTtHJ2ubAtCKFu7XasYIDE1BlrTl60GvAFBmnMNpyera3DVWnTKr+BwvD Dm3fNv0813kKpHiz0/HMdx2/96c1TbuOBpRGHysdvi1bNw2wMmVpAqtqWZ+43P6SaEjf EhEpUY/P0yCVCAtdN0X5Eq/8EkptnJcZ9KADO/2CKToilLFT+HFO9xpe1khoRncrKf9Z d1xg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.145.90 with SMTP id c26mr1732375bkv.34.1342543116184; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.12 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:38:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3200326.C1v6ghYEo5@localhost> References: <3200326.C1v6ghYEo5@localhost> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:38:36 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: b08e6ecf-1254-4286-a4a6-5814cb37d935 X-Archives-Hash: dd5c15836baf3c70a12b3ee8cade2190 On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann 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. -- :wq