Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing

Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing

Posted Feb 17, 2005 10:33 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335)
Parent article: Some Thoughts on the Current State of 64-bit Computing

And once you have it, should you install a 32-bit or a 64-bit distribution?

One set of users who definitely should go with 64-bit are database users - at least MySQL users.

MySQL running in 64-bit mode runs much, much faster (like twice as fast) as in 32-bit mode for many operations.

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