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Re: [Cooker] Doubt: x86_64 or i586?
by Olivier Thauvin-2
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Le vendredi 08 août 2008, Luiz Alberto Saba a écrit :
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> No doubt that it works. I'm using i586 and it's all working.
> But... I'm loosing something for not using x86_64?
> The installer program couldn't tip the user about the more appropriate
> arch for the machine?
If user have more than 4GB of RAM, he will just not be able to run application
needing more than 4GB of RAM per process.
Honestly, developers, sys admin and SGDB administrator can notice a
performance difference, especially if they need 64bits numerics values. But
theses people are normally able to do the good choice about the distro
architecture.
Otherwise, normals users will never notice anything (and highter than 4GB of
RAM computers are not yet so common).
Please, avoid HTML mail, thanks.
> No doubt that it works. I'm using i586 and it's all working.
> But... I'm loosing something for not using x86_64?
> The installer program couldn't tip the user about the more appropriate
> arch for the machine?
If user have more than 4GB of RAM, he will just not be able to run application
needing more than 4GB of RAM per process.
Honestly, developers, sys admin and SGDB administrator can notice a
performance difference, especially if they need 64bits numerics values. But
theses people are normally able to do the good choice about the distro
architecture.
Otherwise, normals users will never notice anything (and highter than 4GB of
RAM computers are not yet so common).
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