On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Used to have the writer machines running XP64; not only did they get > about 15% speed improvement out of Eclipse, the range of awful crap they > could install was greatly reduced because there's really not very much > 64 bit Windows software out there. > > Hopefully someone can tell you if Photoshop is one of those bits of > software. Otherwise it won't get you anything; even if the OS can do > it with respect to more RAM, the app can't use it. > > -- Graydon >
This is ioncorrect on two counts. Firstly there is a LOT of 64-bit windows software out there, things have changed significantly since XP64 was current, the move to 4GB as the base RAM spec on serious machines moved the default OS on mid/high-end machines to Vista 64 a while ago and a lot of apps have moved to 64-bit native (heck, I'm running 64-bit iTunes on my Vista64 machine). Plus most 32-bit software installs and runs just fine under Vista64 or Win7-64, XP64 was awful for app compatibility. Secondly any memory hungry 32-bt app will see performance gains under 64bit OS's with sufficient RAM as the app can then use 100% of the RAM available to it rather than being limited by having to share address space with the OS and any other running applications. This occurs on 4GB and higher configurations and can boost PS performance noticably even if running 32 bit PS. -Adam -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
