32bit vs 64bit

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 00:04:31 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 16:51 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> One thing that most people undervalue is that almost none of these
> tests are 
> actually done on 32 bit and 64 bit processors, they are widely done on
> the same 
> processor (to keep thing the same) and the 32 bit test is run on a 64
> bit CPU in 
> 32 bit mode.

True, but I think that was the point of the question, i.e. if it makes a
difference to use the 64-bit version of Fedora rather than the 32-bit
one, when on a modern cpu.

poc




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