On Sun, November 11, 2007 9:29 am, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > >> Do you do anything that would benefit from a 64-bit word? I have just >> in the past few days discovered that my new laptop with 2GHz AMD >> 64-bit Turion is almost twice the speed on bit-map intensive programs >> as the desktop with 2.8GHz Pentium 4. (32-bit). > > > In my experience, the only real-world benefit for the general use case > of most desktop systems is that running 64-bit lets you use more than > 3GB of RAM. > > Gregory > >
What about the "seconds to a long time ago" rollover ;-) -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
