On Thursday 27 July 2006 15.10, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > I've got 2 GB and it will (have to) stay so > > Okay, so you won't need one of the main features of 64bit machines - > larger addressable space of RAM. > > Will you do number crunching with floating point numbers or with > large integers? > > If not, then you won't use those advantages either. Somebody correct > me, but if you want to WORK with this machine (ie. not fiddle), I'd > suggest to stay 32bit. Or what advantages would 64bit provide? > > Alexander Skwar
Thanks, that's more or less what I thought. No the machine is a bit of an "accident" (I bought the wrong CPU for another board and then decided to build a machine to see what "dual core" really brings) so, if I keep it, it will do "Work" and may be also a little "game" :)) The "dual core" seems to give more "bogomips" than my main machine (a dual Opteron, and that one runs a 64 bit OS) but I'd like to see how this translates in everyday life. Thierry -- [email protected] mailing list
