[analog-help] Re: Ann: 6.0.3 Release

[Dimitri Maziuk]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 14:59:01 Paul Wade wrote:
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> > A 64-bit Browser use Report?
>
> Pretty much essential I would have thought.  We have a start already...

You do realize that 
 first, 64-bit CPU designers made sure their CPUs can run "legacy" 32-bit code 
as fast as "native" 64-bit code -- otherwise nobody's gonna buy it;
 then, people figured that all you get from using 64-bit applications on a 
64-bit machine is waste of RAM and hard drive space: double the size of the 
binary, no speed advantage.

There are many cases where 64 bits are useful, but I don't see how web 
browsers fit into this category just now. Maybe when Internet3 goes online 
and all the webpages grow over 2GB in size...

So what exactly are you going to learn from 64-bit Browser use Report? -- how 
many people out there have too much RAM and disk space?

Just curious
Dima
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Dimitri Maziuk
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BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu