2009/1/16 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 11:59 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Yes, that's better :-). That said, why on earth would you want to run >> 32-bit processes on a 64-bit OS when 64-bit flavors are available? > > You're running on a platform that isn't stooopid. Only on x86 do x86_64 > processes get "faster" due to access to more CPU registers. But it > comes with a cost of much higher memory consumption. Note this isn't inherently true, if you're running managed code, a VM can do some interesting tricks: http://blogs.sun.com/nike/entry/compressed_object_pointers_in_hotspot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
