No. Paging is rare with such large amounts of memory. It may make it a
bit faster when switching between windows or open tabs.
A system with 4GB of memory will seem about as fast either 32 or 64bit.
There will be an increase in speed if you go to 8GB of RAM but it won't
double. The apps won't run faster but you can have more open and can
switch between them more quickly.
And that would be a faster system, but wouldn't make the apps themselves
much faster.
Tom
On 6/2/2016 10:10 AM, 'Ken (desco1kr) Ramsey' desco1kr@comcast.net
[LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>
>
> If more memory can be addressed / utilized would that alone not make
> most applications run faster where many of us tend to have multiple
> windows open at any given time?
>
> Less paging, IOW, less disk I/O, that is inherently slower than memory.
>
> On 6/2/2016 9:54 AM, 'T. Hunt' roversouth@bellsouth.net [LINUX_Newbies]
> wrote:
>> Not really faster. What 64bit does is it allows the system to address
>> more memory. What that means in practical terms is that 32bit is
>> restricted to slightly less than 4GB of memory (RAM). 64bit
>> theoretically can address way more than that. One article I read says
>> that AMD64 actually has a 48bit addressing structure and Intel has a
>> 42bit structure so neither can access the theoretical maximum.
>>
>> What this means in practical terms is that 32bit systems are limited to
>> 4GB of memory and 64bit systems generally max out at 128GB.
>>
>> Memory is where things happen but the processor (CPU), the motherboard
>> and the software all have to be written to take advantage of that. A lot
>> of software is still not able to take advantage of the multicore
>> processors or the extra memory.
>>
>> In practical terms, most of today's systems are 64bit. I would recommend
>> that you use 64bit OS and equip your system with 8GB of RAM. That should
>> do you well for anything that is likely to come down the pike.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On 6/2/2016 9:26 AM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:40:37PM +0200, 'highskywhy@yahoo.de'
>>> highskywhy@yahoo.de [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>>>> Is it a question of speed? regards sophie
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It depends upon what you're doing, but generally, 64 bit should be
> faster.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scott Robbins
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>>> Posted by: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
>>
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