Hi,
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Kerry wrote:
would I be better off with the 32 bit option?
Much Much Much better..
I have three 64 bit machines, that I do all my development on.
Two of them the family have access to.
--Neopets on linux (64 bit) is inferior to that on windows. I suspect
it is the 64/32 bit issue.
flash plugins do not exist for 64 bit. They expect you to run the browswer
in 32 bit mode, with 32 bit flash plugins, for optimal performance.
I ain't doing that to the browser, so neopets struggles.
Most of the world software is still made for 32bit, and is most heavily
tested&debugged on 32bit - so why go elsewhere?
There are many times when I have compiled open source programs (or
attempted to compile) which failed to complete - there were
pointer/integer size mismatch issues..
The only time when you have a noticable (or significant) advantage for 64
bit is when you have large files of data to process. There was a time
when I was processing gigabyte sized tcp dump files. With a 64 bit
machine, you can put many more gigabytes of ram into the box, which aids
the processing of such large files.
--
Derek Smithies Ph.D.
IndraNet Technologies Ltd.
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