Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> writes:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:39:50PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> > Currently i am running windows 7 64 bit on a machine with Intel®
>> > Coreâ¢2 Quad Processor Q8300
>> > (http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=39107). i would like to install
>> > debian. Is the amd64 bit version ok for this processor [...]
>>
>> Yes.
>
> The only reservation I'd have about that is if you're going to be using
> huge programs written in Scheme. That's pointer-heavy, and will use
> about twoce as much RAM to accomplish the same thing in 64-bit more as
> 32-bit mode. Unless you have more than about 6gig of RAM, whereupon
> 64-bit is a win again.
>
> But most users don't do that.
Multiarch will fix that because then you just install a 32bit scheme.
MfG
Goswin
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