On Tuesday, 08 December 2009 at 20:07, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 18:41 +0100, drago01 wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Rallias UberNerd > > > > But wouldn't it be better to use 32 bit when less then 4 GB of ram is > > > present? > > > > no, using x86_64 means more registers, sse2 as default floating point > > instruction set, better calling convention (register passing vs. > > stack) or in other words in most cases faster code. > > Indeed. Intel 64 (x86_64) is really a different animal. More registers, Actually, x86_64 is an AMD invention (originally called AMD64) and is called EM64T by Intel. The only "Intel 64" I can think of is IA64, i.e. Itanium (called "Itanic" by some). Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
