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On 9/18/06, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm putting together a new system and I'm considering going 64-bit. |
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> Is the benefit of such a system pretty much speed? What are the |
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> drawbacks of using a 64-bit system with Gentoo? |
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You'll only notice a speed increase with applications that need to |
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caculate very large numbers, like encryption keys and certain |
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scientific apps. Everything else will basically run just as fast in |
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32-bit mode as it will in 64-bit. There are exceptions in certain |
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media encoders that don't have hardware optimizations for 64-bit, that |
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may actually run faster as 32-bit apps. |
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Anyway, I think this article summed it up pretty well: |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/199229/ |
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-Richard |
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