On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:37:11PM -0500, Michael wrote:
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> Hello,
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> >I've heard arguments that it's faster... but the machine is only 333mhz
> >anyway, I'm not expecting it to compile KDE :-)
> My 333MHz U10 manages to compile the basic KDE packages overnight. If 
> you have enough memory ( at least 256MB ) it's even usable - KDE is 
> more a memory- than a CPU hog. Of course it's not quite as snappy as on 
> a 3GHz PC with 1GB RAM but it's no slug either, even with some of the 
> eyecandy enabled.
> The only real problem is the thread bug which bites sooner or later 
> when you're running something memory-intensive using native threads.

I don't plan to run KDE3 on it, I was just using the KDE3 build as an
example of a large workload I don't plan to throw at it :-) (the box runs
headless, after all)

> And - back on topic - one reason to run a 32bit userland is that many 
> packages aren't 64bit clean. You'd be surprised how many programmers 
> simply assume that sizeof(int)==sizeof(void *).

Yeah - that's one of the main reasons I keep the box online, so I can test
my code to make sure that what builds and works on LSB ILP32 also builds and
works on MSB LP64. I've had some code I wrote build and appear to work, only
to discover later on that (for example) it's doing really weird things to a
string used for processing internal data, etc.

- Sean

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