F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/24/2011 03:51 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/24/2011 08:19 PM, Nat Gross wrote:
>> Planning to install Fedora 15 on a new partition dual boot win 7.
>> Hardware AMD 1090 (6 core) with 8 gig ram.
>> Doing Java programming and plan to use KVM machines with Fedora as the host os.
>> Of course regular stuff on the web including videos, etc.
>>
>> So, the question is. Is it still advisable to go 32 bit due to
>> stability (say Flash), or can I gain performance and have 99%
>> stability with 64 bit F 15?
> 
> Virtualization certainly benefits a lot from x86_64 to the point that
> RHEL6 only supports it on that architecture.  I would recommend going
> with x86_64 for your use cases  

I agree.  Java runs better on 64-bit too.

Andrew.