Dan Nicholson wrote: > 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.
I can see that. It is a specialized application that is probably optimized heavily for 64 bit systems. Part of the same presentation was showing > how they were switching their UI from this old Motif piece of garbage > to using Qt. Interesting. I thought that was very interesting, although I'm sure no > one else I work with had any idea what they were talking about. LOL. Been there. Done that. I hate it when that happens. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
