On Dec 7, 2007 3:16 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > It cannot be more secure. 64 bit machines has capabilities that some > > people need and its good to have a secure platform for them. I am > > working with in memory databases and 64 bit machines are ideal for this. > > > > IBM used bit-hype when the 286 came out with a bigger address bus, and > this has been the industry battle flag since. It was still an 8 bit CPU. > Likewise, you cannot label 2 (or more) discreet, asynchronous, 32 bit > execution units as a 64 bit core, duh. > > To date, the only place these '64 bit emulators' excel is in processing > huge amounts of huge numbers, where iterative instructions are in the > cache and data is in memory. Using 64 bit Linux for making database > queries is ludicrous unless the application is strictly mathematical. >
Really? Try using 16 GB memory in a 32 bit system. Linus said that if you want big memory machines use 64 bit processors. -- Lay low and nourish in obscurity -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
