Hi Benjamin,
Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> wrote on 23.03.2016 18:23:29:
> I want to understand why this is important to you. The advantages of
> the 64-bit version are marginal unless you're running out of address
> space, which is only likely to happen to a very small subset of
> users who are running very advanced games or 3D webapps like CAD
> programs in their browser.
Not very strong reasons, but there are some
* With a 64bit version I can get rid of all the path magic I have to do
for deployment (to differenciate between %PROGRAMFILES% and
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%) Shorter scripts mean less errors.
* There are a few security features that work better in a 64bit Build
(ASLR comes to mind) - though it depends on how/if it's actually enabled
(and not defeated by some other "security" software (like sophos used to
to).
I actually assumed the 64bit build for windows had the same behaviour than
the Ubuntu build (on ubuntu-FF x64 java was working fine last time i
checked). I assumed there would be no fundamental change in behaviour just
because of an architecture switch on windows. I learnt a lesson :)
Best Regards
Heiko
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