This One Time, at Band Camp, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:05:20PM +0200: > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > Let's say this processor supports 64 bits, what whould I gain from > > migrating to x86_64 I mean would it be faster??? I've never > > owned/worked on a 64bit machine before so excuse my lack of knowledge
> > :) > Please stop using the x86_64 nomenclature with respect to gentoo. Gentoo > does not define this arch and has no such name - all 64 bit extended > arches compatible with x86 are called amd64 on gentoo. > The x86_64 name is used by Red Hat and other distros. There are all the > same thing really, but using the wrong name in the wrong context clouds > the issues and leads to vast side-threads asking question that have no > answers and that accomplish nothing. I'm sorry but I'm just used to call it this way, most of distros I have tried in the past call it this way, anyway I'll try to memorize it. > You will not notice a speed increase with a 64 bit processor. You might > be able to measure one but it won't really feel any different in real > life. What you will notice are: > 1. The annoyance of having to put up with 32 bit apps with no 64 bit > equivalent > 2. Apps can now see more than 3.1GB of memory per app, and can see it > linearly. If you run a massive database this will be important to you. > If you don't, you won't. Do you have more than 4G of RAM? > So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit > machine I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just stick with the 32 version, works great... -- Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :.
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