Igor Chudov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Movies are probably not going to benefit any. The ONLY thing a 64-bit >> system does for you is it allows a SINGLE application to use more than 2 >> GB of memory in one address space. >> > > > More than 3 GB > > > Huge SQL databases, huge CAD surface > >> models and computational fluid dynamics are the places where you run >> into this. >> >> For SQL databases, the OS caching could help beyond 3 GB. >> > > I agree with everything else, usefulness of 64 bit has been overrated and I > find more bugs on 64 bit systems. > > Hopefully it will change in a few years, with memory getting cheaper and > bugs getting fixed. > Also, certain software requires different licenses to run on a 64-bit OS, and there are also export restrictions. It certainly does nothing for any of the work I do, although others working in the same fields that do bigger projects may need it.
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