On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: > >> Yes Pierre - on the larger systems we run multiple machines, but on sites >>> > that only require a single computer, a single clean stack is also >>> nice, with >>> > everything in the one base directory and without the agro of deciding >>> if >>> > this is a 32bit or 64bit program. Everything running on the Linux >>> boxes is >>> > 64 bit, and everything is built from the same code base, so I will >>> continue >>> > to use a single 64bit stack .. >>> >> We are not talking about a linux stack here. And a server, even on the >> same machine, has nothing to do with the clients connecting to it, as >> explained earlier already. >> > > ? I'm running the full stack on windows as 64 bit code and seeing a > performance improvement over the 32bit version. we are talking about your whole stack, as you didn't ran benchmarks using 32bit php vs 64bit php. > Stripping parts out of the 64 bit stack and just running them 32bit may be > worth the effort, yeah, using 32bit php should gain you a little bit performance gain, and more stable and supported build. > but *I* am happy that my own PHP section running 64bit libraries for > graphics and eaccelerator is running faster than switching just that section > to 32 bit. how do you know that it is running faster? did you benchmarked it against the 32bit version? I thought that you didn't. > There way well be room for improvement, but having to sort out which > programs can be 64bit and which 32bit is just messy. yeah, life is a bitch. > Apache running 64 bit IS faster are you sure? I didn't really see any benchmarks supporting that fact, let alone for windows, which is usually less of an interest for the apache httpd developers. > so using a 32 bit version once one switches to VC9 builds, so maintaining > everything 64bit VC9 just seems sensible. Exactly the same as it is on Linux > anyway. yeah, if you are using php as an apache module, but if you use for example fastcgi, you can run 32bit php with 64bit apache or vice versa. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
