Re: 64-bit Vista adoption skyrocketing...

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What, you can't have the cache and all that with true 64-bit apps? You have
to choose between one or the other? My 32-bit Windows on this Core2Duo
machine is plenty fast as it is. I've don't generally have to wait more than
a heartbeat for apps to open, so I don't see any advantage in storing them
in RAM to make them open more quickly.

I know all that about the RAM, wasted space, etc. I guess my <g> (grin) at
the end of the paragraph didn't make it clear enough that I consider those
"free-RAM believers to be nuts.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

"rasmasyean" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gary S. Terhune;822848 Wrote:
Yo, dude... What you quoted in no way addresses the 64-bit
*applications*
issue. Until the applications are there that truly are 64-bit, the
problems
with 64-bit Windows (and there are plenty) are not worth the risk for
so
little return, and no matter how many cute tricks the programmers and
Microsoft pull to make what are essentially 32-bit apps run faster
under
64-bit architecture, that is not at all the same as having true 64-bit
applications.

Not only that, but SuperFetch would drive the RAM worry warts, the ones
who
insist that there must be as much free memory as possible, absolutely
bonkers, <g>.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
'Welcome to the GrystMill!' (http://grystmill.com)


That's not exactly how it works. Having a large disk cache makes
overall performance faster since it doesn't have to access the HD as
much since a HD is a lot slower than RAM.

And what you are talking about regarding 64-bit application performance
only applies to things that involve a lot of math calculations. Many of
these "special" users already use 64-bit XP. In reality, the "average
user" would reap more benefit from cache (even as it uses all "free"
RAM) than to run true 64-bit applications. The future 64-bit apps is
just icing on the cake.

See most free RAM is wasted, so Vista salvages that wasted RAM
intelligently to make the computer faster. It's not just the CPU and
FLOPS or whatever that affects performance.

At least that's what that article is indicating as the reason for
grater adoption of 64-bit Vista (vs. 32-bit Vista).


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rasmasyean


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