On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:00:41 -0700 > "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Jamie Dobbs > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been away from Gentoo for the last year or so and using Ubuntu > > > but find that I want to return to Gentoo simply because of the > > > level of customization that I can do with it. > > > > Well then, welcome back. > > > > <SNIP> > > > Also I'm not running at Athlon X2 system, ifs there any _real_ > > > advantage to running AMD64 or should I still to x86? > > > > I run an amd64 as my desktop system. It' started as my 3rd machine so > > at the time it was 64-bit for fun. today I just live with it. There > > are some limitations on the 64-bit platform with web-based media, but > > beyond that I find 32 and 64-bit machines to be pretty similar in > > performance. I run old windows games under Wine on 64-bit and they > > work OK. I think Flash and Java have been the two larger issues for me > > over time. A few win32codec issues also. However if I wanted to get > > around those I could probably do something in a chroot but I'm not > > that motivated. > > > > If I was building a desktop machine today I wouldn't build 64-bit. I > > see no advantage and a few disadvantages, but either way you go you'll > > probably be fine. > > I use a 64 bit myself and have done so ever since I got tired of > running 32bit and wasting half my CPU. I recommend running a 32bit > firefox, but other than that, there's no real problems here. Wine > seems to run a little better in 64 bit than I've seen it perform on > other systems but it's hard to be sure. > > Anyhow, just wanted to say I switched from 64 to 32 originally, as Mark > suggested, and switched back very quickly. I don't know if the speed > really changed, but it made me feel better about myself. >
It's an interesting question and one I've not tried to test. Does an AMD64 machine running a 32-bit or 64-bit install run faster or slower with one or the other. For all of my everyday work - Gnome, Firefox, web browsing, email, MythTV, etc., it's been my assumption that there wouldn't be any noticeble difference. I run 64-bit but assume I'd run at more or less the same speed if I ran 32-bit. I may be wrong. Anyone have any measured data? Same machine, two installs? I should see about 1) getting my chroot working again and then 2) getting it to boot and doing a check. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
