Timeline for What is the purpose of [64-bit] and [32-bit]?
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| Dec 14, 2016 at 15:33 | vote | accept | Excellll | ||
| Feb 5, 2016 at 20:32 | history | edited | Excellll | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added info about related tags
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| Feb 5, 2016 at 16:09 | answer | added | Excellll | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 5, 2016 at 14:59 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | I'd use [x86_64] with [amd64] as a synonym. | |
| Jan 31, 2016 at 10:11 | comment | added | Raystafarian | I also agree. The only time someone would need the tags is either A) They know they need it and would include it in the question text or B) they have no idea and wouldn't use it anyway. | |
| Jan 31, 2016 at 5:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/693672191888588801 | ||
| Jan 29, 2016 at 16:41 | answer | added | Ben Voigt | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 16:36 | comment | added | Ben Voigt |
@OliverSalzburg: Except that really should have a windows-x64 tag or even just amd64 or x86_64 rather than 64-bit. Right now, a query for windows+64-bit (the combination on that question) doesn't mean what people expect it to... it could give you questions about Itanium or running Windows 10 on a 64-bit ARM processor.
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| Jan 29, 2016 at 15:01 | comment | added | Oliver Salzburg Mod |
Example of a legitimate use of 64-bit: superuser.com/questions/442246/…
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| Jan 28, 2016 at 8:08 | comment | added | Hennes | That penalty is real on most 64 bit systems, but almost not present in amd64 /x64 hardware because those CPUs gain additional registers when operating in 64bit mode. It is an issue on hosts equipped with 512MiB or less though, but any modern computer ships with much more than that. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 21:37 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | @Hennes from memory there have been a few questions recently where people have bought or built a low-end machine that has only 2GB of RAM where 64-bit would be a (debatable) penalty in performance. The tag is still relevant, even if it is slowly becoming less so. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 20:26 | comment | added | Hennes | I think that these tags made sense in the past when we 64 bits OS's where relative new. E.g. tagging something [XP] and [64 bits] would often lead to different answers then just [xp] (though a [XP-64b] tag would solve that). But these last 10 years no sane person has installed a 32 bit OS anymore. So I guess one of the tags can go. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 20:25 | comment | added | Ramhound | nuke the tags from orbit. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 17:59 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Those tags are so that the 32-bit experts don't answer 64-bit questions and vice versa. The 32-bit experts don't have enough bits to answer 64-bit questions correctly, and the 64-bit experts have too many bits to answer 32-bit questions (their answers get doubled, which is undesired redundancy). | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 16:55 | history | asked | Excellll | CC BY-SA 3.0 |