On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Ikem Krueger <ikem.krue...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> > Except, that could be false advertising. In most cases, where CPU > > computation is not used heavily, 64-bit is actually SLOWER than the > 32-bit > > counterpart. Optimizations are narrowing the gap, but it still remains > > true. > > Why then should someone prefer 64bit over 32bit? > > 4 Reasons: 1: Date/Time stamp, Unix time doesn't work in 32-bit past 2038 (not really affecting us much, most of us will replace our PCs long before then) 2: Access more than 4GB of RAM (definitely becoming increasingly important) 3: Enhanced performance-critical computational capabilities (if you do a lot of complex HD photo, HD video, or HD audio work, or if you do a lot of raw complex math on your computer, this is EXTREMELY important) 4: Better virtual machine performance
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