On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2012, 07:52:08 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: >> So the same old query again I guess. >> What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit >> processor? >> >> I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or >> = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not wrong. >> >> So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit >> for me. > > now that I am home: you believe wrong. > > There are many good reasons to go 64 bit. Easier memory managment, more > registers. Bigger register. Faster math because of the bigger registers. > > There is seriously NUL reasons to use 32bit. Zero. Zilch. Why throw away all > those nice improvements - for nothing in return? > > Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by 64bit > ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit. Those who were troublemakers were > also unplayable with 32bit codecs. Flash? Just works. Stable? You bet. > > The only use case that might come up is wine - I don't know anything about > that beast. Haven't had any use for it in years.
IME, 64-bit WINE 64-bit works as well as 32-bit WINE...Which is to say, your mileage will vary based on what you're doing, same as it always has. -- :wq
