64-bit Toys for Athlon-64?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday October 14, 2003 @09:59AM from the lead-foot-throttle-up dept.

gbulmash asks: "I'm looking to see just how much performance I can squeeze out of a new Athlon-64 system. This isn't for benchmarking, but more like you got a new car and you're looking for a long, straight road where you can push the needles into the red before letting off the gas (and then maybe a twisty mountain road to test cornering). Can the all-knowing Slashdot readers recommend some AMD-64 enabled/optimized distros and packages that will let us new proud papas of AMD-64 systems fully open up the throttle on these bad girls and see what they're made of?"

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Uhhhh.....yeah by gazbo · 2003-10-14 10:32 · Score: 1, Funny

Nice coding, dude, except that it will run forever. When you're using a test you use a DOUBLE EQUALS sign, we learnt this weeks ago in class and its pretty basic - your code will just assign 0xFFFFFFFF to the variable over and over.

I'm a bit confused why you'd want to assign a string to a double in the first place, but I guess in C everything is a number at the end of the day so it's still valid.