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On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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>>>> So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit |
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>>>> for me. |
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>>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> Why 32? ... Flash, win32 codecs, probably Wine but not sure as it has |
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>>> been years... |
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>> 64-bit WINE worked for me. Even for running 32-bit WoW. (Though I was |
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>> running a multilib profile. Uncertain if that had an impact.) |
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>> |
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>>> |
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>>> Why 64? ... Virtualization... |
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>>> |
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>>> Depends on what you want and/or need. |
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>> IMO, it's worth the 'overhead' to run 64-bit, if only for the greater |
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>> number of GPRs and other architectural improvements. There's honestly |
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>> a lot of good stuff in x86-64 beyond the larger address space. The |
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>> increased address space also helps long-lived programs avoid address |
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>> space fragmentation. |
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>> |
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>> -- |
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>> :wq |
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>> |
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> |
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> Agreed. I only boot 64-bit here, but different than all you |
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> heavy-lifters my machines are 98% stable, 2% ~amd64. That said I do |
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> have problems not only with Flash on my machine with 2 Nvidia cards |
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> but also with OpenGL. However none of that on any other 64-bit |
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> machines. |
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> As for the win32 codec stuff I use Windows VMs to watch any stuff I |
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> want to watch, and a fairly trim Gentoo 32-bit VM so that I can run |
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> Linux apps to convert certain Windows format files, etc. |
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FWIW, I run 98% (or thereabouts ;) ) stable, too. |
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No trouble with Flash on either nVidia or AMD. No trouble playing |
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Diablo III or WoW on WINE with apps-emu/playonlinux and nVidia. |
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Recently switched to an AMD GPU. No trouble with Flash there, either. |
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Haven't tried WoW, but I've got lots of weird artifacts in Diablo III |
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which don't make the game unplayable, but might to a less-tolerant |
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person. |
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This is all on an amd64 system. I don't know what it's like in 32-bit |
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x86 on Gentoo, as I've never run that form of Gentoo; I let multilib |
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handle things there. |
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-- |
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:wq |
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