From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit vs 32-bit performance ... backwards?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:51:42 -0400
Message-ID: <87zmghzs1t.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com> (raw)
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Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when armtuk@gmail.com ("Alex Turner") wrote:
> Anyone who has tried x86-64 linux knows what a royal pain in the ass
> it is. They didn't do anything sensible, like just make the whole
> OS 64 bit, no, they had to split it up, and put 64-bit libs in a new
> directory /lib64. This means that a great many applications don't
> know to check in there for libs, and don't compile pleasantly, php
> is one among them. I forget what others, it's been awhile now. Of
> course if you actualy want to use more than 4gig RAM in a pleasant
> way, it's pretty much essential. Alex.
That's absolute nonsense.
I have been running the Debian AMD64 port since I can't recall when.
I have experienced NO such issues.
Packages simply install, in most cases.
When I do need to compile things, they *do* compile pleasantly.
I seem to recall hearing there being "significant issues" as to how
Red Hat's distributions of Linux coped with AMD64. That's not a
problem with Linux, of course...
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