Advantages of 64-bitness for LAMP applications?
Ted Roche
tedroche at tedroche.com
Thu Dec 23 08:22:00 EST 2004
I have a fundamental question on the advantages of 64-bit CPU systems
for current Linux-Apache-MySQL/PostGreSQL-PHP/Perl/Python applications.
Is there a price/performance advantage, and if so, where are the
benefits?
Most of the work I've been doing is fairly low-traffic data-driven web
sites or direct access to a database server. Do the 64-processors
provide any advantages in these situations, or should I just stick with
32-bit processors? I can see where a 64-bit machine might have
advantages in heavy number crunching or ray-tracing, or in other
high-performance situations where the software's been tuned for it, but
that's not where I'm concentrating.
Comments welcomed.
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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