On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, January 9, 2012 11:13:27 PM UTC-5, William wrote: >> >> 2) One can use much more RAM with 64-bit. Many computers these days >> have 8GB RAM (e.g., even my laptop). > > Or 16GB in my laptop ;-) Though its really only sensible to use ~50% for > the VM, which brings us back to the 4GB limit on a 8GB machine.
Of course, memory is just one of the advantages. That said, I do most of my work on my laptop under Linux using VirtualBox, and I set the limit to "5719MB", which is in the green still (in the VirtualBox GUI). > The 64-bit virtual machine should then also come with more ram & cpus > configured, and require hardware virtualisation. In other words, be only > suitable for a modern computer. +1 It's what I would use if I had to use Windows. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
