On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 00:11 +0000, Andy Blanchard wrote: > I'd boot the 32bit LiveCD version and if it sorts your problems out, > then go ahead and install it, at least until you know your issues with > the 64bit version are fixed. > > The idea that 64bit performs better than 32bit is a bit of a fallacy > anyway. There are some advantages, but generally they only come into > play when dealing with more than 2GB of mapped memory, doing lots of > math or manipulating large chunks of data that can be processed 64 > bits at a time instead of 32. For a general purpose desktop or > laptop, you'll probably not really notice much benefit most of the > time and the executables are all slightly larger too. > No it isn't. In 32 bits mode the processor only has a paltry eight registers and in addition it is limited to a brain damaged stack model for floating point. In 64 bits it has sixteen registers and possibly, not sure about it, a healthier floating point model. So out of curiosity I converted flac to ogg in both modes and it is 30% faster in 64 bits ahe > -- > Andy > > The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
