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My understanding is that the major advantage of the 64-bit processors |
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is for memory address space (>4Gigs of virtual memory space without |
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PAE, technically 48 bits of address space, which is something like |
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128Terrabytes of addressable memory). |
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There must be some advantage associated with being able to hold two |
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long ints in one register (or some such relationship there). Anyone |
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know detailed explanations for situations where 64-bit is more/less |
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beneficial and why? |
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--Mike |
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On 6/19/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Monday 19 June 2006 20:26, kashani wrote: |
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> > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > > you don't need a chroot. |
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> > > |
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> > > Just emerge firefox-bin for flash |
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> > > and |
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> > > mplayer-bin for wmv files. |
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> > > |
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> > > Everything else does not make problems. |
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> > Depending on the video files you'd like to decode 32bit can make a |
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> > difference. Many of the stranger codecs are supported through the win32 |
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> > codecs which are not 64bit safe or at least that's what I've read. I'd |
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> > assume that qt, mp4, and wmv would generally be okay. |
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> and this 'strange' codecs are covered by mplayer-bin too. |
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