In my professional opinion... Its not worth it. Moores law is almost up. Soon we wont get any more transistors in the chips. The research community knows this. because And on top of that there has been remarkable strides in the field of quantum computing. There are already working prototypes of quantum computers. With a fully functional quantum computer ... well with the amount of compared throughput it would make modern computing now look like ... well a slide rule. The basic differences for the 64 bit processing is using 64 bits to process rather than 32. AMDs processor is basically an x86 with a 64 bit extension. A quantum computer on the otherhand instead of using a queue to process one calculation at a time. It can do a lot at once.
I believe that 64 bit computing will just begin to gain momentum when
quantum computing makes it obsolete.
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 23:47 -0500, Nick Smith wrote:
> just a curiosity question, i haven't dealt with any 64 bit cpu's yet,
> but i was wondering what people thought about them, can you tell a
> difference? can linux/gentoo actually make use of the 64 bit system? and
> how does an AMD 64 3000+ rate to say a p4 w/HT 3ghz machine with the
> same specs otherwise? it is really worth it to go 64 bit? since gentoo
> is a source distro, would this mean it makes everything for the system
> 64 bit aware? or is it still program independent to whether or not it
> will use the 64bit arch? just curious.
>
> thanks
>
> nick
>
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