Should I choose to take advantage of 64-bit?

posted by  mneon (8)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Here's the guts of a response that I posted a while back to an internal mailing list re: tradeoffs of runing your managed code as 64-bit vs 32-bit. YMMV, and I'll remind you that every perf question has a thousand answers depending on the situation.

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Here's my own personal list of the big pluses and minuses of moving to 64-bit code...

Pluses:

- more memory (+++++)