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Subject: Re: Temperature calibration & =?utf-8?Q?re?= =?utf-8?B?bGF4IEAgTWFjIE9TIFggMTAuNy4zIOKAnkxpb27igJw=?
From: Ben Eisenbraun <bene () domain ! hid>
Date: 2012-04-05 15:31:51
Message-ID: 20120405153151.GA5314 () domain ! hid
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Hi Edward,
> Is it worth having a 64-bit x86 version?
Does relax need to access more than 4 GB of RAM per process/thread? I think
that's still the main deciding factor in the 32/64-bit choice. Apple claims
that 64-bit apps can see a 5-15% performance increase depending on workload
due to the extra general purpose CPU registers available in 64-bit mode.
*shrug*
Among my user population, we have very few PPC users left. The stats from
our ~425 OS X users in March:
https://developer.sbgrid.org/~bene/consortium-stats/four.html
https://developer.sbgrid.org/~bene/consortium-stats/five.html
Given the current difficulties, my suggestion would be to simplify,
simplify, simplify. :-) Once you have a stable package that is working for
the most common platforms, i.e. OS X Intel 10.6/7, then add more options as
necessary to satisfy the corner cases.
As an aside, the linux packages work great on every distro I've tested:
Red Hat/CentOS 5 and 6, Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.10, Debian 6, 32 and 64-bit for
all of them.
-ben
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| Ben Eisenbraun
| SBGrid Consortium | http://sbgrid.org |
| Harvard Medical School | http://hms.harvard.edu |
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