On 3/26/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Bryan. That is a very interesting result. It's only one data > point, but it tends to confirm other reports that I have seen that 64 > bit processing isn't significantly faster for most tasks. > > If you are running a server with > 4G Ram and very large data sets (i.e. > a large database) the additional memory address size would be a definite > advantage. Also if you are doing very compute intensive tasks such as > solving systems of differential equations (e.g. computational fluid > dynamics), 64-bit processing can make a difference.
At work we run a lot of simulators, and it makes a really big deal to have 64 bit binaries. One of the vendors came and gave us a presentation and showed how dramatic the difference was on their electromagnetic simulator. Part of the same presentation was showing how they were switching their UI from this old Motif piece of garbage to using Qt. I thought that was very interesting, although I'm sure no one else I work with had any idea what they were talking about. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
