32bit Vs 64bit OS

[Mike Chambers]

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 21:37 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:

> Its true that the 64 bit build of some apps can be slower than the 32 
> bit builds. However, its rarely more than a few percent. Hardly 
> noticeable, really. On the other hand, many compute intensive 
> applications that can make good use of the improvements in the 64 bit 
> instruction set really fly in a 64 bit build, compared to a 32 bit build.
> 
> The memory footprint of 64 bit builds can be larger, but its not usually 
> by much.
> 
> Overall, if your pentium/athlon machine can run a 64 bit system its hard 
> to imagine a sane reason for not doing so. The few things you must still 
> run 32 bit, like firefox + flash, run just as well on a 64 bit system as 
> on a 32 bit one.

Disagree here, as Firefox + flash (both 64bit) run just fine as is and
don't need 32bit.


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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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