On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Movies are probably not going to benefit any. The ONLY thing a 64-bit > system does for you is it allows a SINGLE application to use more than 2 > GB of memory in one address space. More than 3 GB Huge SQL databases, huge CAD surface > models and computational fluid dynamics are the places where you run > into this. > > For SQL databases, the OS caching could help beyond 3 GB. I agree with everything else, usefulness of 64 bit has been overrated and I find more bugs on 64 bit systems. Hopefully it will change in a few years, with memory getting cheaper and bugs getting fixed. i ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
