On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 12:21, Jens Thomas Kaiser wrote: > Mahesh B wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > > > I have a ppc64 sytem with Debian woody. I have updated my kerenl with 2.6.3. Debian > > provides only 32 bit ppc port. So my xserver seems to be slow in 32 bit. I would like to > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > if that's true there's no way. you need your compiler to know about 64 > bit, and more important your kernel must be 64 bit. anyways, i have no > idea about apples, but recently installed an amd64 with suse64bit. 32 > bit applications seem to be only 10% slower than 64bit. i think the > advantage of 64 bit is for adress-space and precision in iterative > calculations. And the extra registers available in 64-bit mode. > i doubt that the x-server really will benefit from it. > imho, the only reason to have a 64 bit server is if you really have a 64 > bit kernel /and/ want to youse dri (or other kernel-located drivers) How much of X's time is spent in the host's CPU, and how much in the GPU's CPU? Driver-dependent, I guess. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx Jefferson, LA USA LUKE: Is Perl better than Python? YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive. LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl? YODA: You will know. When your code you try to read six months from now. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
