On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/16/12, Nilesh Govindrajan <cont...@nileshgr.com> wrote: >> So the same old query again I guess. >> What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit >> processor? >> >> I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or >> = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not wrong. >> >> So what is recommended? There are as such no special use cases to go 64bit >> for me. >> > > Why 32? ... Flash, win32 codecs, probably Wine but not sure as it has > been years...
64-bit WINE worked for me. Even for running 32-bit WoW. (Though I was running a multilib profile. Uncertain if that had an impact.) > > Why 64? ... Virtualization... > > Depends on what you want and/or need. IMO, it's worth the 'overhead' to run 64-bit, if only for the greater number of GPRs and other architectural improvements. There's honestly a lot of good stuff in x86-64 beyond the larger address space. The increased address space also helps long-lived programs avoid address space fragmentation. -- :wq
