[nycbug-talk] 1U Server Recommendations

[Roland Dowdeswell]

On 1105507936 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
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>LP64: Meaning "long" and "pointer" types are 64-bit. Since a lot of data
>structures are pointer based, your memory utilization (for the same
>structure) will significantly increase.
>
>ILP64: (What Alpha uses): Your ints are also 64 bit. That pretty much 
>guarantees doubling of space utilization, since int is the most frequently 
>used data type.

Alphas are LP64.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/