M Harris wrote:
Although the analogy is going to be a little contrived, its something like
the concept of cylinders in an internal combustion engine... there were cars
made back in the 30s-50s with 10, 12, and 16 cylinders... but due to
harmonics, balance, and other issues (8) seems to be the best (optimum)
number of cylinders.
Interesting (I suppose, North-American) view. Here in Europe, most
cars have 4 cylinders, some have 6, and 8 is very rare to find. But
then, our gas prices are much higher than yours. ;-)
my
gut feeling is that 32 bit width is going to be optimum and that 64 bit is
the beginning of the end of no returns. I mean if PCs really ever do need to
have more than 4gig of real storage/virtual storage then.. .maybe.
There is a reason: virtual machines.
The need to have >3GB arises fast if one runs several virtual
machines, not only as sub-systems on servers but also on
workstations; e.g., as test environments or to have multiple
compile/packaging environments, etc.
For instance, I have several Windows VMs (2000/XP/Server), Debian,
Ubuntu, Red Hat, FreeBSD, and Solaris 10 VMs on my workstation.
Memory is the main constraining factor, as I don't use these VMs
all at the same time. They are there to test something in this
environment, or to look up difference, or to compile and package
some software in its native environment. (Some of them represent
customer environments, but that's a different topic.)
Also, when one wants to have ONE of these VMs as 64bit, the host
system must be 64bit as well.
Joachim
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