[OM Cooker] One users reasons for using i586 on 64 bit hardware.
Ben Bullard
benbullard79 at cox.net
Sun Dec 25 16:11:59 EST 2016
Thanks for the reply and information. I'm going to just not respond to
that post. D27 can do as she/he wishes.
Ben Bullard
ben79
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OpenMandriva-QA Team
On 12/25/2016 01:51 PM, Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote:
> Dnia sobota, 24 grudnia 2016 16:45:38 CET Ben Bullard pisze:
>> I'm the wrong person to reply to this post (lack of knowledge).:-[ For
>> one do x86_64 systems use more RAM than i586? Never heard that one
>> before.
> Yes that is true, because if 64bit world all instructions have double lenght,
> so this means more RAM is used. Anyways we have 2016 and not 2006, where RAM
> was expensive.
>
>> For another what about his claim the x86_64 can't use 32 bit
>> libraries and repos? I think that is just wrong on both accounts. He
>> sums up with this:
>>
>> "But again, for home users, x86.64 brings NOTHING, and 32 keeps a
>> lighter system for equivalent performance."
>>
> When you are rich, there is not point of eating dirt.
>
> In case of 64 bit processors, each 32 bit instructions that comes from 32 bit
> operating system is "filled" with zeros to match 64 bit lenght. This means
> adding zeros at the end of instructions does cost performance.
>
>
>> https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/call-for-testing-om-lx-3-01-isos/860/31
>
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