-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Good point, I agree. I personally wish they'd just fix the CPU consumption of the servers before they worry about that, though. Of course, it doesn't matter to them how much CPU power the servers use as they don't host servers...unless there's some command they're not telling us.
> There are only two advantages of a 64bit version, the first of which is > negligable, support for servers addressing 4 or more gb of ram, the > second, > and greatest advantage of the 64bit architechture, is the doubling of > registers in the x86 vs x86-64 instruction sets, this alone leads to more > efficient code and is the primary advantage of the 64bit architechture > performance wise, as was trumpeted by valves original announcement of > 64bit > support when the opteron was released, however since this initial > enthusiasm > it appears that valve have forgotten about the 30%+ speed improvement they > claimed of the 64bit architechture with a simple recompilation, no > optimisations! as such we just have to wait until they can be bothered to > release a fresh compile of the code for our shiny new servers. o thats > right, > even intel have viable x86-64 cpus these days, its just another sign of > valve's lackadaisical approach to supporting their paying customers, and > the > vibrant community thats grown around their products inspite of their > efforts. > > just my personal two cents worth. > > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
