Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

King InuYasha ngompa13 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 03:44:39 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Ikem Krueger
<ikem.krueger at googlemail.com>wrote:

> >> Why then should someone prefer 64bit over 32bit?
>
> > 4 Reasons:
>
> > 1: Date/Time stamp, Unix time doesn't work in 32-bit past 2038 (not
> really affecting us much, most of us will replace our PCs long before then)
>
> What do the people with 32bit cpus who won't/can't upgrade?
>
>
Then the Y2k38 problem occurs, which is what the theoretical Y2K problem
would have been.



> > 2: Access more than 4GB of RAM (definitely becoming increasingly
> important)
>
> I hope for the apps, not for the system. I don't want to become Linux
> the next Vista..
>

It isn't the OS itself that will be requiring more than 4GB of RAM (at least
I hope not in Linux, Windows is a lost cause... Perhaps ReactOS will pull it
off?), but rather the applications used on the computer. Nowadays, it isn't
unusual for applications to require at least 512MB of RAM. That builds up,
quite quickly.



>
> > 3: Enhanced performance-critical computational capabilities (if you do a
> lot of complex HD photo, HD video, or HD audio work, or if you do a lot of
> raw complex math on your computer, this is EXTREMELY important)
>
> > 4: Better virtual machine performance
>
> Thanks for the answer. :)
>
>
You're welcome ;)
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