On Tuesday 30 October 2007 08:58, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * BandiPat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-30-07 11:54]: > [...] > > > Moving to full 64bit should indeed be a better choice, you would > > think, yet many of apps & plugins are still 32bit only. > > I believe that this is fluff and not fact. There are a few apps > which only have 32bit plug-ins for certain capabilities, ie: I still > run 32bit firefox and plug-ins and 32bit java. But *everything* else > on my 10.1 system *is* 64bit.
But why? Do you run applications that need a 64-bit address space? If not, it's only more execution overhead to move nearly twice as much data around to get any given task done. The fact that the main system busses are 64-bits wide does not negate this overhead. Almost everything a desktop computer does is RAM-limited (this is even true for most CPU-intensive applications), so using a lot less RAM really does help. > ... > > -- > Patrick Shanahan Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
