[gobolinux-users] Re: GoboLinux on a PenDrive

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 7/6/06, teique <teique at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rafael Guterres Jeffman wrote:
> > I have a similar problem, but I have to use Debian for that.
> >
> > I believe one could (somewhat easily) create a 100MB Gobo and still be
> > able to compile C/C++ programs.
> >
> > With few more requirements, I ended up with a 200MB Debian system for
> > IA64 (binaries are ~40% bigger than x86).
> heyyy, good idea :), I could prepare my 64bits compilation on the
> pendrive!, btw, does performance increase really justify the effort?

Switching from 32 to 64 bits does not mean "performance increase". It
means "larger address space" and (roughly speaking) "different
instruction set" (and all that comes with it). Whether this translates
to increased performance, it depends directly on the application.
Examples: heavy numeric computation with large data sets? database
server? desktop system with web-browsing? All of these have different
needs.

Porting a system is never a trivial effort, by the way.

-- Hisham