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what does anyone think?

i like his writing style, i don't agree with all his ideas though, who does?

allix wrote:what does anyone think?

i like his writing style, i don't agree with all his ideas though, who does?

I wish I had some idea what you're talking about.

I think he's referring to this:
World Domination 201

Gomer_X wrote: I wish I had some idea what you're talking about.

sorry, brakthepoet mentioned the link

ESR shows once again he does not know what he is talking about. The magic today is in the software, not the hardware. I can port most all of software I have written in high-level languages and port it over to 64 bit with a simple recompile. The increased address space simply is not that big a deal. The real challenge is going to be programming for multicore/processor desktops, which actually does present a shift in the way we program. But even that is overhyped.

I don't get it. If I'm reading it correctly, they're suggesting that somehow the switch from 32 to 64 bit will somehow allow linux to overtake windows and/or apple as a desktop. I just don't see it happening that way.

Snarkout wrote:I don't get it. If I'm reading it correctly, they're suggesting that somehow the switch from 32 to 64 bit will somehow allow linux to overtake windows and/or apple as a desktop. I just don't see it happening that way.

Yeah. Although Linux does have much better 64bit support currently not many people _need_ to switch to 64bit since they can just use 32bit on a new CPU so Microsoft can take their time getting everything to support it well. The switch from Mac to Windows at that time was way different because the two platforms were incompatible and the hardware Windows was using costed less.

The 64bit switch might help Linux but I don't think it will make everyone switch.

TankCatNinjaFish wrote:ESR shows once again he does not know what he is talking about. The magic today is in the software, not the hardware. I can port most all of software I have written in high-level languages and port it over to 64 bit with a simple recompile. The increased address space simply is not that big a deal. The real challenge is going to be programming for multicore/processor desktops, which actually does present a shift in the way we program. But even that is overhyped.

Stuff like video encoding is alot quicker on a 64 bit machine with over 4 gig of ram which a normal user would benifit, Any multimedia and games would surely benifit it.

Are you talking about multi-threading in regard to "multicore/processor desktops" ?
A lot of apps are being rewritten or new apps coded with that in mind, lots of scripting languages like perl,ruby,python etc have multi-threading libaries as standard.