32bit vs 64bit machines
Ok...another dumb question before I either upgrade current computer or go new. Decided this should be separate from my other post. Currently have a 2008 HP Pavillion Desktop running Vista Home P...
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bob_nestor wrote:
I worked in the computer industry during the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit. The biggest difference I saw then was it allowed for more lower skilled programmers to develop highly inefficient code that required the larger address space.
In addition to the best laugh I've had yet today.. That has got to be the best and most accurate description of the difference I have read to date... I go back to SMALL machines where we measured the RAM in not Gigs as we do today but in KBytes FOUR OF THEM and still we wrote programs that ran and ran well... Finally I got my first home unit it had 5 but well. only 3.5 usable. (rest were video ram and operational reserved).
64 bit offers more precision for math operations and generally higher speed. But in prctice,, See what Bob wrote, he nailed it.
