Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

[Leiking]

64bit means bugs.?? But I use 64.

2012/7/17 Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info>:
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> On Jul 17, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> IMO, it's worth the 'overhead' to run 64-bit, if only for the greater
>> number of GPRs and other architectural improvements. There's honestly
>> a lot of good stuff in x86-64 beyond the larger address space. The
>> increased address space also helps long-lived programs avoid address
>> space fragmentation.
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>> :wq
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> +1 on architectural improvements.
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> From a purely data-wise view: with 64 bits, Long Integers will be handled
> much faster than having to manhandle 2 32-bit chunks of half-integers.
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> Rgds,