> -----Original Message----- > From: Randy Barlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 4:23 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for > Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf? > <Snip>
> If you are using a lot of memory in your computations, then > the 64-bit environment will be much friendlier to you :) > Also, if I understand correctly, you will get higher > precision on floating point calculations (someone correct me > if I am wrong here!) I also believe that the 64 bit > processors are able to perform more instructions per second > on average when executing 64 bit code vs. 32 bit code if I am > not mistaken... I am not sure, but that makes sense. If nothing else, things executed directly usually run more smoothly than those who are run through emulation. 64bit code on 64bit processor good... ^_^ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
