On 06/11/2007 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:58:15PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > Do you have any reasons for that suggestion? Which disadvantages does > > the amd64 port have on system with up to 2GB of RAM? > > A few programs still don't compile or work on 64bit systems (not amd64 > specific, just 64bit system specific), but other than that generally no > disadvantages.
but at least that doesn't depend on the RAM you use ;-) > I guess you could say that the fact the programs are slightly bigger > (since all pointers become 8 bytes rather than 4) is a disadvantage, but > on the other hand a lot of code runs slightly faster with 64bit, with a > few types of programs running much faster. A few very very pointer > heavy programs might run slightly slower, although I don't know of any > where this is the case. > > With 64bit you can memory map much bigger files than with 32bit which > can make implementing some programs much simpler and probably more > efficient too, so there seems to be many good reasons to move to 64bit. that's the relevant information here ;-) Thanks for pointing me to it. ... jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
