Re: amd64 and dpkg and so
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Jungowski <jungowsk@in.tum.de> writes:
Martin> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:43, Roland Fehrenbacher wrote:
>> Fully agreed. A pure 64bit distro would be nothing more than an
>> academical exercise at this stage and the foreseeable future with little
>> practical value and even less real users. 32 bit binaries will need to
>> run on these machines for a long time. Please don't waist resources for
>> this.
Martin> Oh I don't think so. The AMD Opteron is a lot faster in 64-bit than
Martin> in 32-bit. Not only does it have eight additional GPRs but also the
Martin> XMM-Registers (aka SSE). During my benching, every single 64-bit
Martin> test was faster than the same software compiled for 32-bit -
Martin> sometimes more than 20% faster in 64-bit
I fully agree with what you say about the Opteron. But it doesn't contradict
what I said. Every user of such a system will more than likely also need or
want to run a 32bit binary on such a machine at some stage, and it is just too
restrictive not to be able to do that. It is clear that you want to run 64bit
whenever you can, but you won't always be able to.
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