On 02/26/2009 07:49 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:What applications or usage scenarios get more out of your hardware as with 32bit / 64bit kernel? How much better are those on amd64?If you have over 3 GB of memory then you need 64 bit. Otherwise, it is mostly very specific scientific applications that need 64 bit: home users will see no benefit. In _most_ cases.I imagine the arguments where similar when operating systems moved from 16 bit to 32 bit. ;)
Going from 64KB segments to 4GB segments was, practically, a much larger jump in functionality and memory access than the jump from 32 to 64. That's because:
1. PAE allows 32-bit systems to see much more than 4GB RAM, 2. "long long" are available to 32-bit compilers, 3. AMD64 uses the LP64 model, where int values are still 32 bit. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship with a chimp male is Homininphobia, and you should be ashamed of yourself.