Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

[Hal Murray <hmurray%megapathdsl.net@localhost>]

swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost said:
> All in all, Mayuresh, while I can see some reasons to run AMD64, I'm  really
> on the same wavelength as you are - what's the point of hassling  with AMD64
> anyway ? Perhaps someone will point out the "killer feature"  that we
> missed. :-) 

The thing you get with 64 bits is pointers that work in more than 4 gigabytes 
of memory.  That includes virtual memory as well as physical.  There are lots 
of cases where that is critical.  The usual one is databases.

On the other hand, all your pointers take twice as much memory.  That may 
have significant impacts on your cache footprint.

There are some problems where you need 64 bit integers.  You can get those on 
a 32 bit system with long long.  That may be a pain if you are trying to 
compile software that somebody else wrote.


swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost said:
> * At some point I thought that PAE wasn't working properly on i386. My
>    workstation machine has 24G of RAM (yeah yeah, but it was on sale). I
>    have a foggy recollection of i386 only letting me access the first 4GB. 

I have amd64 7.0 running on a system with 4 GB but /proc/meminfo says it's 
only using 3.  Is there anything I have to do to get it to use the other GB?


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