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Re: [News] Customers Stung by 64-bit Microsoft Windows

Nomen Nescio wrote:

> AZ Idiot wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Windows isn't optimized for anything.
>> Their primary problem with 64 bit machines is that they don't have a
>> second
>> semester CS student in the house who can write a decent compiler.  Their
>> 64 bit code is bloated garbage.  Only microsoft could fail from
>> yielding any performance improvement at all when using a 64bit machine.
> 
> 
> List all of the benefits of 64-bit Linux over 32-bit.

64-bit processors shine in the areas of floating point calculation and
address space. Large numbers of floating point calculations are used in 3D
graphics, such as games. If you want to keep all your operations in memory,
you need more that 4GB, the limit placed on memory by having a 32-bit
address space.

Scientific computing also requires a lot of floating point calculations and
large memory space. 

I believe that the AMD processors also have machine instructions, which are
only available in 64-bit mode. This is the advantage of Linux as it can be
compiled for the specific processor.

Ian

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