On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 10:56 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: >> You will, especially on this mailing list, get a lot of people who act >> like running 64-bit if you don't have more than 4 GiB of RAM is some >> sort of apocalyptic disaster > > I "only" have 4 GiB and I used 64-bit architecture with less than 4 GiB > too. IMO using 64-bit is better than to use 32-bit. >
Especially when one considers that 64-bit applications can make use of full register set of AMD64 (which is 16 instead of 8). This by itself can give quite a bit of speedup for some applications (like games, media, {de,}compression). I'm running it w/o any issues on laptop with 2.5GB RAM available. Granted sometimes I would like to have slightly more RAM (4GB would be really nice), but on day to day basis I don't have problems with it. -- darkestkhan ------------------------------------------ Feel free to CC me. jid: darkestk...@gmail.com May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cacrpbmia8ydh3snmu8wp9o7xsfw_6u8enhqzq_y575to3tq...@mail.gmail.com