Re: PHP on 64bit Ubuntu

From:	Colin Guthrie	Date:	Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:57:58 +0000
Subject:	Re: PHP on 64bit Ubuntu
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Robert Cummings wrote:

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:32 +0200, Aschwin Wesselius wrote:
I don't get it that people still think 64-bit is twice the 'size' of 32-bit. It's like saying 2 square meters is 2 times a square meter, while actually it is 4 times a square meter.
Actually... 2 square meters is exactly twice 1 square meter. I think you had another analogy in mind, but then I'd would get you on switching dimensions.

I think he was meaning that a square with a side length of 1m is not half the size of a square of side length 2m.... It's a quarter of the size... -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]