[mdlug] Time to jump to 64-bit?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 13:51 -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> > My main system is Athlon X2 based, quite capable of running 64-bit
> > Linux. But I've been sticking with 32-bit versions for now. I only have
> > 2GB RAM in there anyway.
> >  I understand that the 64-bit instruction set has extra registers and
> > such, which can provide a boost of a few percentage points in some
> > tasks. But I've heard that there's problems with Flash support, and I
> > use Wine and some emulator stuff to run older Windows games. Overall, I
> > don't know if the benefits of 64-bit would outweigh the drawbacks in my
> > case.
> nspluginviewer solves the problem for flash, etc.
> The bigger problem is memory bloat. 64-bit code takes
> a lot more space both on disk and in memory.

This is very true;  for many processes we had to significantly increase
the maximum memory allocated to a JVM to perform the exact same task
than was required on 32-but.
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