On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:53:12AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
I don't think this is always the case. Obviously if you run a lot
of
both kinds of apps it matters, but if there are a few, small x86-64
processes (say e.g. the xserver, or a database instance) the doubled mem
use from some shared libraries should not affect things overly much. In
most practical uses of computers (i.e. those that actually *do*
something) most memory is used for the users "data", and for that, x32
uses less ram, as all pointers in the ram structures are half the size.
Obviously, it all "depends". But I think x32 makes a lot of sense as an
option, especially in the virtual machine space.
Can we get some definite numbers?
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