On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 23:15:24 +0200, "Peter Lauri" <peterlauri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But what would the benefit of installing x86_64 be? Pros vs cons? x86_64 is marginally faster despite the bigger cache footprint because it adds registers, so if you do something like biochemistry or mathlab on your lappy, it helps. It's more about the number of registers than their size. Also, at some loads with some peripherals, eliminating highmem gives a boost. Not only there's no copying, but also the single-zone VM in Linux performs much better than dual-zone for many loads. You can see it when using an external USB disk. So that's the rule of thumb. On a plain office box with less than 960MB there's probably no sense in it. -- Pete _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
