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From: Matthias Bethke <matthias@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:20:04
Message-Id: 20060728211445.GA785@huxley
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core by Alexander Skwar
1 Hi Alexander,
2 on Thursday, 2006-07-27 at 15:10:00, you wrote:
3 > If not, then you won't use those advantages either. Somebody correct
4 > me, but if you want to WORK with this machine (ie. not fiddle), I'd
5 > suggest to stay 32bit. Or what advantages would 64bit provide?
6
7 Depends a lot on the code[tm]. Some things benefit a lot from a decent
8 number of registers. OTOH, fiddling with pointers in memory slows things
9 down as compared to 32bit.
10
11 cheers!
12 Matthias
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