Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:33:10 +1300 (NZDT)
Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
And following on from that, it's really useful for database servers...
Steve
and virtualising . . .
Roger
