Re: 64bit vs. 32bit
| From: | Ashley Sheridan | Date: | Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:39:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: 64bit vs. 32bit | ||
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On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 15:18 -0600, dbrooke wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:56 -0600, dbrooke wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I am interested in hearing opinions about if there
> >> are reasons to stay with a 32bit php/apache if there
> >> is 64bit options available. What are the pros/cons
> >> in running in the different architectures?
> >>
> >> (Fat Binary apache2, *nix platform)
> >
> > I'm running an AMD 64-bit (phenom) dev system... I haven't experienced
> > any problems yet. Generally speaking 64-bit will eat up a bit more
> > memory though due to wider integer fields.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob.
>
>
> Thanks, any other limitations, perhaps with extensions / libraries that
> you know of (using 64bit)?
>
> Donovan
>
> --
>
As far as I know, you can still have 32-bit components in a 64-bit
operating system, although there are some slight limitations on how far
this goes and what components.
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk