On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> OK... I didn't want to go into to much detail, which is why I left it at that 
> simple explanation.
>
> An OS like Solaris will give the same performance levels in 64 bit mode and 
> in 32 bit mode, in average (some things are faster, some slower). Windows 
> (but we all knew that in advance) sucks in 64 bit mode.

You may be interested to note that Citrix _claim_ that 64-bit Windows 2003 
+ 64-bit Citrix Presentation Server delivers up to 3 times the number of 
users per server:

http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=22341

(though this figure is fudged as they compare W2003 x64 and W2000 x32)

All I know is that I tried to install it and found lots of software 
the customer wanted refused to install on 64-bit Windows, so I gave up.

And to get back on topic, I've not moved to NetBSD/amd64 as I'm getting 
coredumps from joe/ncurses.

-- 
Stephen