Re: 64bit vs. 32bit

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)? None that I've seen, though just realized that may be because I compile PHP from source (on my dev system). I doubt there would be an issue though with most distros out there that have 64 bit versions since they would use the same source (for the most part). Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP