[dundee] Linux on the desktop

[Andrew Clayton]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 12:08, Jonathan Barber wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:54:26PM +0000, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:42, Martin Habets wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > 
> > > > What have you used 64-bitness in apples for?  As far as I know Mac OS
> > > > X is only 32-bit.
> > > 
> > > Yes, Mac OS X is 32 bit. But I was running Linux on them (and on the sparcs btw.),
> > > so I had 64 bit compilers!
> > 
> > Although there is generally little advantage in having a full 64bit user
> > land. And in fact it can be a disadvantage.
> 
> How can it be a disadvantage?
> 

Bigger binaries and can have slower performance.

You do get quite a bit of overhead with 64bit, use it only when you need
it.


Andrew