On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 07:26:32AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:29:28AM -0800:
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In my experience, the only real-world benefit for the general use case
of most desktop systems is that running 64-bit lets you use more than
3GB of RAM.
The UNIX 2038 bug.
That can be fixed by just changing the type of time_t and recompiling.
Well, ok recompiling everything, and finding all of the programs that
assumed 'long' was the correct return type. I would guess that making
things work with 64-bit systems has been more work than converting 32-bit
programs to use a 64-bit time type would be.
If you plan on running your desktop machine for 30 more years, perhaps it
would be important to make sure it can do 64-bits. I'm guessing you'll
want to upgrade before then.
Dave
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