On Friday 20 November 2009 05:57:09 [email protected] wrote: > FWIW, the things that affect me using 64 bit on a given machine are: > more than 3GB of RAM or > need more than 2GB in a single process or > doing 64 bit math (nb this isn't strict, you can get at the opcode in > 32-bit installs, just requires effort) or > want to do 64 bit port testing/development > -> 64bit > > otherwise, 32bit is better. Pray wax lyrical
> Some 64bit capable CPU's actually do 32-bit mode better than 64, and > vice-verca, but I don't recall which ones - and unless you're on the > performance edge it won't matter anyway. performance differences are <yawn> and it depends on what you are doing in particular things like video editing with lots of ram (or ltsp server) do much better with 64bit clean memory handling. Sounds like intel talking about AMD :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
