[Mageia-discuss] Installer: Server v. desktop kernel: No choice?

Renaud MICHEL r.h.michel+mageia at gmail.com
Sun Jul 17 18:31:22 CEST 2011


On dimanche 17 juillet 2011 at 17:44, Remco Rijnders wrote :
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 08:57:45AM -0400, TJ wrote:
> >I looked into installing the 64-bit version of Mandriva when I
> >discovered my cpu was 64-bit capable, but concluded at the time that
> >there was no real advantage on this machine since the maximum RAM is
> >less than 4 GB. So far, I've been happy with that, but in light of
> >recent development, is there any reason why I should reconsider?
> 
> Outside of the large memory support on 64 bit, it also uses the
> additional registers a x86_64 processor has available. This should
> result in a performance improvement on your computer, though I'm unsure
> how noticable this is.

And also, the 32bits are actually compiled for i586, so you don't have the 
optimizations and newer instructions sets that are available for i686 and 
newer.
x86_64 include all those goodies and so you get all those optimizations when 
you compile for x86_64.

-- 
Renaud Michel


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