>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes:
Rich> Tools I use like GRASS, R, LaTeX, PSTricks are not considered Rich> heavy computing tools. Back when I was using it, R was an in-memory statistical tool. That is, you needed to load your entire dataset into memory prior to executing the statistical calculation. On top of which, the in-memory representation of the data inflated the in-memory size by a substantial factor. 64-bit might well have some advantages here. I am running 64-bit on all my 64-bit capable devices and have yet to encounter any substantial difficulty. In the early days, there were 32-bit applications that had some trouble, but these days that case is pretty well handled by the distributions. We recently encountered an issue where a particular tool was 64-bit only, I think maybe the Android SDK, and we (not me personally!) had installed 32-bit Gentoo on the 64-bit box we'd want to use it on. Oops. My advice is, go 64-bit when you can. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
