Re: Intel Core2Duo (T7400)
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 13:35 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:58:15PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > Do you have any reasons for that suggestion? Which disadvantages does
> > the amd64 port have on system with up to 2GB of RAM?
>
> A few programs still don't compile or work on 64bit systems (not amd64
Any real-world examples?
Even OpenOffice runs as 64bit since months.
The only which I remember rumors are "grub". But being a bootloader,
that probably doesn't hurt much.
Fact is that I run pure 64bit Linux since months on my home desktop
(though I'm not the typical desktop user;-).
> specific, just 64bit system specific), but other than that generally no
> disadvantages.
> I guess you could say that the fact the programs are slightly bigger
> (since all pointers become 8 bytes rather than 4) is a disadvantage, but
> on the other hand a lot of code runs slightly faster with 64bit, with a
Yes, x86_64 has more registers than i386.
> few types of programs running much faster. A few very very pointer
> heavy programs might run slightly slower, although I don't know of any
> where this is the case.
In short: FUD?!
[...]
> The main missing programs seem to be things which are closed source, so
> adobe flash, acrobat reader, etc. Some of these do have more or less
> functional open source replacements. Video codecs can also be a
Some browsers (konqueror, firefox as far as I've been told) allow to run
32bit plugins from the 64bit version. Since the flash-plugin and others
is not really important for me, I don't really care.
> problems since many are 32bit windows code only. Some people just run
> the few problem programs in a 32bit chroot and deal with it that way,
Or install 32bit libs and run a 32bit browser/application on the x86_64
installation.
> which seems to make a lot of sense. I suspect pretty soon these
> problems will go away, although it may not happen until windows users
> finally get with the program and start doing 64bit there.
Yes, but that implies "Vista" there and God knows how compatible (even
to pre-Vista Windoze) the result will be.
Bernd
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