Re: Quad Xeon vs. Dual Itanium - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Quad Xeon vs. Dual Itanium
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Msg-id 20040213174717.GC2501@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: Quad Xeon vs. Dual Itanium  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:19:39PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 64-bits isn't faster than 32, and can be slower because of the longer
> pointer length, decreasing cache performance.  The major advantage to
> 64-bits is accessing more the 4gb of RAM.

I note, however, that all the Sun experts say you should get your
database applications optimised for 64 bits because you can ship
around more data at a time.  I have no clue what they're basing it
on, though.

A

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