On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:13:55PM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote: > Salut, > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:02:22AM +0000, mickey wrote: > > or what you think loading 36bit physaddr is slower than loading 48bits? > > I think that loading 48-bits in one step is faster than loading 36-bit > in two. It is also a matter of experience that amd64 memory access is > way faster than i386 with PAE.
why do you think that tlb loader cannot load 64bits in one step in i386 mode either? > i386 is dying out finally, that's what I meant to say. amd64 has been > elected as the architecture of the future by most if not all hardware > producers. We got rid of one of the worst pieces of hardware ever, at > least partially. This is why I suggested that it might be less of an > issue to most people. > > For a good reason: nowadays, you just get an amd64 and don't have the > problem. lots of amd64 machines have much of their own stability problems. it is as well a different architecture that requires recompiling software that may or may not be 64bit clean. of course running your favourite irc client would not matter... cu -- paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)