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 1Sr8Bf-0001qd-6H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:51:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2921DE060F; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AECF3E05E8 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:49:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl3 with SMTP id l3so420000yen.40 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:49:41 -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=5anxb4XS84EBJWCYXEF3CHK0jE+cVs3jL5eJ41bTiuI=; b=dV+BbT5KcUugZlpyYzz5QaEi7cZBO0SUPcC32Z+cBEXd3++Ynzc8jRczxKTIoK/unL mFTtYLGaRCFceLA8dbXzpfxyUx9Fli+IxE0VoySTWxtWKejoybi7gPKJvXGRZzELaW0v kCYXG30OfPqiYgmmz5TIHbVJw4WCanbfddqDnDa9BjkI1Q1absOoDC/aNj4Lg1CBjdAT 7kYL27w8bKdbncCTjfNJfXr/8uGY9u/DjM1IlpECy2Yi9d+dr4woULBSy4XOmz8+yOIj WO6ey8cEPFV/DUtqzt0XIJwshpnHYCmqAoqHSvd0L7r0fEMprDrKLdF0DvA+AD7l3zOc Zv9A== 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 10.68.239.9 with SMTP id vo9mr6672288pbc.41.1342532980501; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.225.7 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:49:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:49:40 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit From: Leiking To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: d1fe8983-bf5b-4210-b58b-84987a916fe5 X-Archives-Hash: 5f144421bab37b983e584c4f8ae3f4c6 64bit means bugs.?? But I use 64. 2012/7/17 Pandu Poluan : > > On Jul 17, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" 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,