On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:43:20AM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > In general it is, there are specific cases where 32bit apps are faster > > but there's corner cases for everything. > > 32-bit apps will almost always use less memory. For whatever that's > worth. I saw a quote long ago about the average increase in size for AMD64 64bit binaries was extremely small, iirc below 5-10%. So the increase in size of native binaries probably offsets the need to load all the supporting 32bit libraries for the one 32bit app you end up using. Chris
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