On 6/29/2013 6:00 PM, Doug wrote: > So why have we been > bamboozled into running 64 bits if there is no advantage?
There are many reasons. One is priming the pump. At some point in the future applications are predicted to become so content rich (bloated) that individual application processes will require more than 2GB of address space. Moving to 64 bit now gets everyone ready. Another is the desire of developers to eventually dump the 32 bit x86 instruction set altogether. Those who write the memory management code disdain the segmented addressing scheme of x86. x86-64 provides a much flatter memory model which is easier to program. Those who maintain complete distros, such as Debian, would surely appreciate building ~30,000 binary packages instead of ~60,000, and tracking/fixing bugs in only one of these instead of both, etc. To name a few. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51cf87c9.9020...@hardwarefreak.com
