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Depends on what your bottleneck is. For me, it's usually been memory rather than CPU. I was using 64bit, then switched to 32bit and saw a gigantic improvement i
by axod 17y ago
Depends on what your bottleneck is. For me, it's usually been memory rather than CPU. I was using 64bit, then switched to 32bit and saw a gigantic improvement in mem usage. (See slicehost vs linode comparisons etc)
- chancho 17y agoYour argument refutes itself handedly because 32bit processes are limited to 4GB of address space. You've maxed out 1Gb now, how long before you max out 4Gb? Memory concerns are clearly the reason to go 64bit, the stuff about registers is icing on the cake. Look at the big picture, whether it be pointers or integers into an array: the size of the index grows with the log of the number of things being indexed. You can't avoid this growth, but it matters less and less as you grow.