[ale] 64-bit vs 32-bit?

[Jerald Sheets]

There is a 64-bit Java for Linux.  Moved to it years ago when I was at Weather.com.  It's was available on the Sun site (now Oracle).


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On Mar 31, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:

> There's no 64 bit benefit except for scientific number crunching and systems with greater than 4 GB ram.
> Firefox works fine. It's stupid flash that's a bear. There's a 64 bit version but you have to dig for it. 
> Official Java is not 64 bit for Linux but GnuJava is and seems to suit all of my needs.
> 
> On Mar 31, 2011 7:37 AM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > I've finally got a machine at home that has a 64-bit processor, and
> > was wondering about the cost/benefit ration of running Fedora 14 at
> > 64-bit.
> > What are the pros/cons of this? I'm only aware of certain issues with
> > specific programs (Firefox, frrex) having different bugs in the 64-bit
> > version than the 32-bit.
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > 
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