Re: [Nolug] Why AMD64?

ACT! is a contact management program. I highly doubt that 64 bit is
neccesary for it, unless you've got a very large number of salespeople
connecting to a centralized db.

Generically speaking, 64 bit should improve performance, when the code
takes advantage of it. Possibly even dramatically. But this takes
time, if anyone remembers the switch from 16 to 32-bit, it took years.

I'm sure some kernel hackers have done benchmarks testing their 64 bit
releases, but it's hard to compare hardware at that point.

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Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 13:37 -0500, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> 
>>Well, whatever it is, a 64 bit processor is not going to help.
> 
> 
> Slightly more than serving files.
> 
> The particular application is "ACT!" (for which there is no Linux server
> version and our sales guy insists he needs).  This includes an embedded
> SQL Server.  So, there are some local database accesses.
> 
> I don't know enough about ACT! or SQL Server to know if 64bit would make
> a difference, but I suspect not.
> 
> Mark.
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