Alvaro Figueroa <fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr> wrote:
>
> > Would be nice to have a 64-bit userland on a 64-bitter though.
>
> Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood from a thread in the
> lkml a while ago, that a 64 bit userland would be slower, and that it
> was only worthy if you would have a very large DB that would need to
> user *very* large adresses.
I'm curious about this.. Do you have a link to that discussion in some
LKML archive somewhere? I've heard this before, but I'd like to know why
it's the case..
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