On 7/19/05, Mayank Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm planning to buy a new PC, was thinking of AMD 64 bit processor. > How is it compared to pentium 3.4G (not talking of 32/64 bit > difference, but actual speed). My main interest is development in > C/C++. Will the 64 bit architecture be of any problem for that? Like > typecasting "int" to "unsigned long" or vice-versa? > > & is it worth buying a 64 bit processor? Will i see any performance jump?
All over the various lists this debate has been going on. This bench mar vs that and ....... IMHO go from AMD64 if nothing else it offers price advatnage over the latest from Intel and makes your PC a little future proof when more and more support gets going for 64bit. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
