Query about fc4 servers support for apt-get

Jonathan Berry berryja at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 14:41:03 UTC 2005


On 10/21/05, Rudolf Kastl <che666 at gmail.com> wrote:
> infact a 64 bit port of the games would be slower. atleast according
> to the opinion of alot developers i know ;).

Uhh, no.  That is a ridiculous statement.  Why would a 64-bit port of
a game be *slower*?  Why would any program be slower if built for the
x86_64 platform?  That just makes absolutely no sense.  I have not
done many comparisons, but I know I have seen at least one program get
a more than 2x performance boost between 32-bit and 64-bit builds. 
There is a lot to be gained in moving to 64-bit, with probably the
biggest gain being the availability of 16 general purpose registers
rather than 8.

> 2005/10/21, Rudolf Kastl <che666 at gmail.com>:
> > google for doom3 linux faq ;)

And what are we supposed to be looking for in this search?

Jonathan




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