[kwlug-disc] 64bit installs

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Khalid Baheyeldin wrote, On 12/23/2010 1:24 PM:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Cedric Puddy <cedric at thinkers.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> 64 bit systems *are not* any faster than 32 bit systems, and (in
>> an apples to apples, GHz to GHz comparison) generally run a
>> little slower, and have a bit higher memory usage.
> 
> 
> I have seen benchmarks for servers, with the LAMP stack as a load
> that showed a significant improvement for 64bit over 32bit.

Right, but I read his message as saying that about desktops. Since he 
said he has only used 64-bit on servers since 2006.

I also read his message as saying speed differences were not 
sufficiently different to outweigh the baggage of 32-bit.

I don't believe he's really addressing high-end hardware in his 
comments (given whom asked), where I suspect "32-bit" isn't even in 
the lexicon these days.