A good 64bit CPU (64 bit data) in a 32 bit OS (32 bit address space) will be faster.
However, I'll wager the cluster of 32bit beige boxes would be more bang for the buck than a honkin' 64 bit Bigiron UltraPower. Atleast for rendering.
Weta used a cluster of 2.8Ghz Xeons, for probably very well researched reasons.
But clusters are difficult. They eat lots of electricity and put out vast amounts of heat. They are also quite difficult to administrate and only specific tasks scale well. And nowhere near as pretty as a dual G5 on your desktop! :)
/Roine
On Feb 12, 2005, at 6:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gday Roine
Well ... If I follow, it sounds to be better off with a couple of nice 32 bits in cluster mode than a 64 ??
E just end user
Therefore, applications that do not use the larger addressing space won't be any faster on a "64 bit operating system". If anything, it just means 2x the storage size for pointers, which will unnecessarily fill the processor cache and slow the app.
/Roine
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