On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 12:33 +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> You're missing the point.
>
> If I put you in front of 2 identical machines, one running 32bit and
> one 64bit software, would you be able to tell which one was which,
> from the interactive performance of common applications? I'd be
> willing to bet that for the vast majority of applications you
> wouldn't be.
That's a silly argument, because it simply relies on the fact
that most
uses of computers aren't CPU-bound at all. In the same way I could
probably steal half the RAM from your system and clock the CPU down 50%
(the BOFH's favourite revenue-generating technique!) and from 'the
interactive performance of common applications' you wouldn't be able to
tell the difference. I don't think that _means_ very much, though.
It's quite meaningful, e.g. for power conservation. As you no doubt
are aware of, modern system regularly clock down the CPU.
regards,
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