Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

[Denis <denis.che@gmail.com>]

On 5/24/07, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> Bear in mind that GCC is almost certainly masked for good reason. It's
> not like you're using a binary distro and only need a compiler for a few
> packages. Feel free to try it in the knowledge that if it breaks your
> system, you get to keep the pieces.

Ain't it the truth!  No, I wasn't asking with the anxiety to hurry
things up - I was asking more about an estimated release time, whether
it will be a month, 2 months, 3 months, etc.

I'm not really looking to "experiment" with the cutting-edge releases
right now.  My aim is to build a fast, stable system for my
computations, which ultimately brought me to another major decision:
32-bit or 64-bit...  I run simulations which I write in C and
numerical computations which I run in Mathematica (which has just
released the 64-bit version).  Would a 64-bit system significantly
benefit these applications?
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