On 11/18/2009 09:23 PM, King InuYasha wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Ikem Krueger > <ikem.krueger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ikem.krueger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > Except, that could be false advertising. In most cases, where CPU > > computation is not used heavily, 64-bit is actually SLOWER than > the 32-bit > > counterpart. Optimizations are narrowing the gap, but it still remains > > true. > > Why then should someone prefer 64bit over 32bit? > > > 4 Reasons: > > 1: Date/Time stamp, Unix time doesn't work in 32-bit past 2038 (not > really affecting us much, most of us will replace our PCs long before then) > I believe even 32-bit kernels now keep the time in a 64-bit integer. This shouldn't apply any more. > 2: Access more than 4GB of RAM (definitely becoming increasingly important) > The 4GB limit is only on processes. Most recent 32-bit Intels can address 32GB of system memory. Not necessarily relevant, but a win for Linux (Microsoft never figured out how to make this work :). --CJD -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
