64 bit F7

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Wed Jul 18 12:04:53 UTC 2007


Markku Kolkka wrote:

>>     My question is why would anyone want to have an odd ball
>> F7 with 64bit logic? It makes no sense to me.
> 
> There's nothing "odd ball" about F7 x86_64. Most currently
> available Intel-compatible CPUs are 64-bit capable, so it makes
> no sense to me to waste the capability by running a 32-bit OS.

I hate to agree with Karl (well, not for his reason)
but I have an Athlon64 machine with 64-bit and 32-bit Fedora-7 on it.

Admittedly I don't use this machine much,
and certainly not for anything that could be called number-crunching,
but I haven't noticed any real difference between the two systems.


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