32 v 64 bit

[Soham Chakraborty]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:

>
>
> Am 16.12.2011 20:44, schrieb Fedora User:
> > I'm down to a half screen on my Dell laptop. Looks like I'll buy myself
> > a new toy - presumably the week between Xmas and New Years day. One
> > dumb question:
> >
> > Assuming supporting architecture, can someone quantify the benefit of
> > the 64-bit distro? Thanks!
>
> on modern machines with hughe memory a must have
> no contras these days
>
> 32-bit is legacy and over the long dead
>
> i have migrated our last vm-guest these week to x86_64 and
> installing since 2008 never ever any i686-machine
>
>
> Big virtual process address space is the immediate benefit that comes to
my mind. In 32 bit systems, 4G is the limitation of process address space.

For a new system. go 64 bit.

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