I'm running the 64 bit JDK on my laptop but I've only begun to compile programs on it so I don't know much about performance differences. I thought 64 bit was supposed to be better at using up memory to get more performance. Is more CPU usage a good thing? Is there a noticeable performance increase?
On Feb 10, 10:09 pm, Sean Comerford <sean.c.comerf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any of you posse people have much experience running the 64 bit 1.6 Oracle > JVM on Windows? > > We recently cut some services over to it, using the CompressedOOPS. > > Accomplishes the goal of giving us 4 GB heaps but the extra cost in CPU > usage seems excessively high. We expected some penalty in this respect but > same app now seems to be using more than double the CPU. > > Guess I'm just wondering if we're missing some big dial that only applies to > 64 bit. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
