"km b" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >When you claim something generally, like 64-bit machines faster than >32-bit machines, it is but specific to your application and the area >you are working in.
Neither Michel nor I claimed anything "generally". We're both talking about our specific experience with scientific computation. >And you can always run dragonfly on a 64-bit machine and it doesn't >mean the OS won't utilize the available resources of 64-bit >processors. In 32-bit mode the additional general-purpose registers and additional XMM registers are not available. >I'd ask you guys from making such comments as the DragonFly ain't SMP >capable and won't be for a while just because you don't want to try it >(because it doesn't have fancy graphical installer of your famous >linux distro) . I used it for 2 years on a laptop that is now kaput. I ceased for various reasons, none of which was a graphical installer. Meanwhile, who are you and why don't you put a real name to your flames? Rahul