9 Nov
2007
9 Nov
'07
10:17 a.m.
Simon Jolle wrote: ...
When would you choose 64 Bit and when 32 Bit?
Some applications run faster when they are compiled and run under x86_64. I've seen programs running 30% faster.
On i386, each process is limited to 2G RAM address space.
My own desktop is Fedora 7 x86_64 with 32bit Firefox (to use plugins that are 32 bits only).
All our 64bit servers run x86_64 Centos 5 or RHEL 5.1.
Mogens
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