2010/9/26 Giuseppe Ghibò <ghibo...@gmail.com>: >> - Intel i586 (all) >> >> - Intel Pentium Pro >> - Intel Pentium II >> - Intel Pentium III (Including some Pentium D)
(...) > As I said I would see someone with such hardware, taking a CD of latest MDV > or cooker and try to install to do something and do a report. I did run mandriva 2009.x on a PIII with 256Mb of RAM a year ago. Hopefully upgraded to 512Mb Yes video playback is painful on original i810 but it worked. > You are forgetting a midrange. Which is the midrange of not the latest > hardware but a memory around 2-4GB RAM. In that set a 32bit OS is still > consuming 30-50% fewer memory than 64bit. Yes x86_64 consumes a little more RAM. But on the other hand it : - leverages SS2, - offers twice more regular registers that are twice bigger (and yes register pressure is a big issue on x86) - offers twice more SSE registers - enables to actually use the RAM between 3 and 4Gb which is not usable on quite a lot of chipsets. - it makes easier to use bigger disks (64bit math for adressing sectors on big volumes is expensive on 32bit) And PLEASE learn to QUOTE ONLY THE APPROPRIATE SHORT PASSAGES. Thanks... _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list Mageia-dev@mageia.org https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
