On 07/17/2012 07:19 PM, Leiking wrote:
64bit means bugs.?? But I use 64.
2012/7/17 Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info>:
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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+1 on architectural improvements.
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.
Rgds,
Bugs. This is why I wanted to get an answer to this question specifically.
I've been using Gentoo since one year and with amd64 only. But recently
(if you noticed), I'd posted a thread about lot of segfaults.
As much as I was compelled to think that something is really wrong with
my hardware, a similar segfault bug occurred on an _amd64_ Gentoo VM
with Linode I manage, that too with a program that had been working ever
since I installed it, and there were no updates as such.
But from the inputs I received, I think it would be obviously better to
stay with 64bit.
Is it only me or the ~amd64 branch has become really unstable in the few
days? (Yeah I know ~amd64 can be unstable to any extent it wants to, but
just a qualitative question)
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