[Mageia-dev] i686 must be Pentium II ?

Sun Sep 26 23:55:41 CEST 2010

2010/9/26 Giuseppe Ghibò <ghibomgx at gmail.com>:
+>> - Intel i586 (all)
+>>
+>> - Intel Pentium Pro
+>> - Intel Pentium II
+>> - Intel Pentium III (Including some Pentium D)
+
+(...)
+
+> As I said I would see someone with such hardware, taking a CD of latest MDV
+> or cooker and try to install to do something and do a report.
+
+I did run mandriva 2009.x on a PIII with 256Mb of RAM a year ago.
+Hopefully upgraded to 512Mb
+Yes video playback is painful on original i810 but it worked.
+
+> You are forgetting a midrange. Which is the midrange of not the latest
+> hardware but a memory around 2-4GB RAM. In that set a 32bit OS is still
+> consuming 30-50% fewer memory than 64bit.
+
+Yes x86_64 consumes a little more RAM.
+But on the other hand it :
+- leverages SS2,
+- offers twice more regular registers that are twice bigger
+  (and yes register pressure is a big issue on x86)
+- offers twice more SSE registers
+- enables to actually use the RAM between 3 and 4Gb which is not
+usable on quite a lot of chipsets.
+- it makes easier to use bigger disks (64bit math for adressing
+sectors on big volumes is expensive on 32bit)
+
+
+And PLEASE learn to QUOTE ONLY THE APPROPRIATE SHORT PASSAGES.
+Thanks...
+