Siju George wrote: <snip> > > so you think a 20 ton truck is twice as fast as a 10 ton truck? > O.K I get it :-) > So when does changing from 32 bit to a 64-bit processor actually help?
Quoting Paul de Weerd, "In short: There is no short answer. It depends on what you're doing." ( Not to mention how you do it ;-) Short answer: When you *might* need more than a GB or so of RAM/swap. Most anything is faster than stuck. Easy: 2:1 ratio *either direction* which is faster. Hard: 10:1 ratio (again either direction). (figure in loading/unloading times on the truck analogy)
