On Monday 04 February 2008, Warren Young wrote:
Jimmy Bradley wrote:
would I really gain anything right now by going to a 64bit machine?
First, I'm not really disagreening with you, many users probably wouldn't see any advantages with x86_64. But you facts were a bit off...
Not unless you put at least 4 GB of RAM in it, and from your description of what you do, you have no good reason to do that.
Actually you get benefits already above 900-something megs. This because a 32-bit will start juggeling with both low-mem and high-mem.
If you don't have enough RAM to need 64-bit addressing, you're just slowing the system down, making it deal with larger addresses for no benefit.
Not quite true either, x86_64 brings with it, for example, more registers.
/Peter