On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 16:15, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > You should base that decision on price/performance. You always
> > have the option of running the 32-bit OS on a 64 bit CPU if
> > you want. You probably won't see a big performance difference
> > anyway unless you have more than 4 gigs of RAM.
>
> not necessarily true. The x86-64 architecture brings a bunch
> of additional features/optimisations in addition to an enlarged
> address space.
Most of the things I notice being slow these days are waiting
for disk or network I/O anyway, but are there benchmarks available
for some 32 vs. 64 bit applications on the same hardware?
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Les Mikesell
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