64bit clean AMD64?
Paul A. Houle
ph18 at cornell.edu
Mon Mar 7 15:14:35 UTC 2005
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 21:08:35 -0500, Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org>
wrote:
>
> What is the future direction on this? When I look at OSF/1 or the IA64
> bit
> versions of most Linux distributions I get jealous on how clean their
> environment is... For most server environments, 32bit versions of
> libraries
> you don't need are just clutter...
>
Funny enough, many operating system for Ultrasparc (both Solaris and
Debian Linux) decide to run a 32-bit userspace under a 64-bit kernel.
I think things are different with SPARC than with AMD64; AMD64 not only
widens registers, but it adds more registers. Some things run faster in
64-bit mode in AMD64. On the other hand, applications that handle a lot
of pointers will bulk up substantially in 64-bit mode: 32-bit binaries
will lose less RAM.
If you're running, say, mod_perl, under Apache prefork, or even a
Java system that burns a lot of RAM, you might be better off running in
32-bit mode than 64-bit mode.
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