From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GPYN6-0003t9-Bt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:42:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8J5eemV000237; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:40:40 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8J5aWWS031673 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:36:32 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so434964ugc for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:36:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gz6nop7cQK5vJQmZi6jYJjLva3AtNhXdQQ/u5mEtLzZ3oKfAExzh8YiwDtHepHwPDvdr5O4dkKoPXcIREFRLPPYmL4w21Nkr78sPGGYGmaqJ8x2SHe/YlL4V11HkypxtmzuuhTzUyz3Cyj10LXoBVhHSYfcApMzabOxVNwUB4Ew= Received: by 10.67.24.13 with SMTP id b13mr7748941ugj; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.223.11 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:36:31 -0700 From: Drew To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit system? In-Reply-To: <1158592204.450eb6cc8e322@imp6-g19.free.fr> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10609180718w301ebaacx89d175031e6774a7@mail.gmail.com> <1158592204.450eb6cc8e322@imp6-g19.free.fr> X-Archives-Salt: 85a6f49f-7fb9-40d3-a466-2bc56594ff83 X-Archives-Hash: d941d2499d87c5ff7f00f829976399e1 > As for speed: boy, those new processors (an amd 3800 x2 in my case) are fast... > as are their 32 bits equivalent. Considering the 3800+ x2 (ditto here) runs at a real speed of 2GHz vs the 1.8GHz my old Athlon XPm2500+ did in stock configuation, I'd say so. Of course tweak the XPm to a real 2.5GHz (or higher) and watch it run circles around everything else in my collection. Who needs ricer flags when you have ricer hardware? ;-) -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list