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Why 64 bit?
Why 64 bit?
Posted Sep 13, 2006 9:03 UTC (Wed) by jfj (guest, #37917)In reply to: Why 64 bit? by TwoTimeGrime
Parent article: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)
Unless you are using "long long" operations or more than 4GB of memory per process, none. Oh, I forgot, it eats your cache memory so you are using 1/2 of it compared to 32 bits.
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Why 64 bit?
Posted Sep 13, 2006 9:11 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Congratulations on being the only commenter not to assume that '64-bit' means 'x86-64' :)
Why 64 bit?
Posted Sep 13, 2006 15:36 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Ummm... What OTHER 64-bit architecture is available for "brand-new AMD64 workstation" ?
Why 64 bit?
Posted Sep 13, 2006 20:42 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Er. Um. True. I forgot the actual *content* of the article.
I'll go away now.