should I go for 64bit version of Fedora 11 ?
Roberto Ragusa
mail at robertoragusa.it
Thu Nov 5 12:56:12 UTC 2009
Chris Adams wrote:
> On a 64-bit system, all of physical memory can be mapped into the kernel
> address space at all times.
>
> Also, x86_64 has a larger CPU register set, which can speed up some
> operations.
Also, applications are always compiled for SSE on x86_64 as that is
not an optional feature of the hardware, so it can be assumed to be
always present.
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Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
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