Do you need more then 4GB of RAM, if so then your only option is 64-bit.
not true. but it's true if you need over 3GB of VM for single process.
o) Is FreeBSD 6.1 considered equally stable under the i386
architecture as under any of the 64bit architectures?
Sure, and you can still run i386 FreeBSD on a 64-bit chip.
this way it doesn't make sense of buying 64-bit hardware.
i use FreeBSD/amd64 (6.0) and it works excellent.
o) Anything else to consider in this context?
Code compiling is very fast on AMDs chip thanks to HyperTransport and
the on-die memory controller, if your task can take advantage of this
AMD is your best bet.
other tasks get from this adventage too, maybe not that much. lowest end
AMD64 machines gets same memory bandwidth that high end P4 machines for
1/10 price :) (and still having lower latency).
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