[SciPy-user] 64 bit and 32 bit on Ubuntu

[Robert Kern]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 16:04, Kurt Smith <kwmsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Nathan Bell <wnbell at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Keep in mind that 64-bit Linux is approximately 2x cooler than 32-bit
>> Linux, so the choice is easy IMO.
>
> This temperature difference is really surprising to me, and I'm not
> able to find anything that talks about it in detail.  Anything more
> you can say as to why this would be the case?

He didn't mean "cooler" as in, "Yesterday was cooler than today," but
rather "cooler" as in, "James Dean was cooler than I will ever be."

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco