Re: Upgrading PC, should I use a 32-bit or 64-bit kernel?
- From: "David L. Johnson" <david.johnson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:39:43 -0500
Dances With Crows wrote:
If an amd64 distro doesn't make it as transparent and easy as possible
to run x86-32 apps, that amd64 distro is broken. Mostly because there
are a number of things (OOO, evil binary Flash plugin, wmctrl) that have
no 64-bit builds or don't run properly if compiled under 64-bit. There
is AFAICT no advantage to using amd64 for the things that most ordinary
users want to do. There are disadvantages, like having a few things
like epsxe barf miserably even under 32-bit emulation.
While the rest of this is probably true, the first part is null, since I would sincerely doubt that any amd64 distribution does not indeed make it possible to run 32-bit apps, if you so desire. I don't use this on my amd64 machine, since I wanted to keep it from running too many things in 32-bit emulation
But the real issue is whether the speed improvement on some computations is worth the hassle on a price/performance basis, and so far I don't think it is. For the same money, you can get a 32-bit system with more cores, or faster cpu, which would then outperform the 64-bit system. Plus, you avoid the limitation of not being able to run flash --- although, actually, not being able to run flash can be somewhat liberating.
(If I have to upgrade, I'm probably switching distros. Recompiling my
whole Gentoo system isn't exactly a fun thing to do.)
I fail to see the advantage of Gentoo with respect to that, but to each his own.
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