On Thu Nov 15 18:14:18 EST 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this question also came up in bay area plan9 meeting. would be nice to > know the status. i think unix adopted 32-bit earlier than other OSes. > but for 64-bit, others have gone ahead. >
64 bits is neither here nor there in a vaccuum. you want 64 bits if a) you need more than 4GB of memory, or a) those extra registers and direct vlong really matter for performance. otherwise it's just a lot of extra zeros. it's kind of silly to run 64-bit linux on a machine with <= 4GB of memory. - erik
