On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:28:46 -0400 (EDT) "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > Note that people who have only read the marketing material and who
| > don't realise what various non-x86 archs get up
|
| I know you're very "into" alternate archs es
Ciaran,
>such as a heap of extra general purpose registers, which makes up for
>the 64 bit code penalty
Only if the compiler's register allocator makes use of them, which gcc
does.
>In an ideal world, your amd64 box would run a pure 64 bit kernel and a
>64 bit int / 32 bit pointer userland, and
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Note that people who have only read the marketing material and who
> don't realise what various non-x86 archs get up
I know you're very "into" alternate archs especially MIPS and SPARC (which
is great BTW). So is it true that Niagara SPARCs will have
On 05/19/05 23:41, Bob Sanders wrote:
On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400
Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of
machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One
is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the ot
On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Does Gentoo do anything with the extra 64 bits?
64 bit code is actually slower than 32 bit code for anything except
certain dedicated applications. What you do gain is increased address
space, which only makes a difference
On May 20, 2005, at 3:15 am, Walter Dnes wrote:
Is there any real advantage to be had with an Athlon 64? Does Gentoo
do anything
with the extra 64 bits?
I'd think that 64-bits would be disproportionately more useful than
none at all!! ;P
Stroller.
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On Thu, 19 May 2005 22:15:55 -0400
Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of
> machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One
> is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the other is an AMD Athlon
> 64 3000+
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
> As I await my income-tax refund, I'm drooling over a couple of
> machines on a website that allows you to build to your own specs. One
> is an Intel P4 CPU 505 2.66GHz/533FSB/1M and the other is an AMD Athlon
> 64 3000+/1600FSB/512K CPU. Spec'ed out ot
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