This week's book giveaway is in the General Computing forum. We're giving away four copies of Arduino in Action and have Martin Evans, Joshua Noble, and Jordan Hochenbaum on-line! See this thread for details.
You can run either the 32-bit or 64-bit JDK on a 64-bit OS. This is assuming that you are running on an AMD or Intel EM64T-capable CPU.
Which one should you use? It depends entirely on the apps you deploy. If you apps need lots of heap space, use the 64-bit JVM because you can declare a larger heap size, but be careful - larger heaps mean larger GC pause times.
Peter Johnson wrote:You can run either the 32-bit or 64-bit JDK on a 64-bit OS. This is assuming that you are running on an AMD or Intel EM64T-capable CPU.
Which one should you use? It depends entirely on the apps you deploy. If you apps need lots of heap space, use the 64-bit JVM because you can declare a larger heap size, but be careful - larger heaps mean larger GC pause times.
"assuming that you are running on an AMD or Intel EM64T-capable CPU"?
I am using 64-bit RedHat LINUX. Is there any difference?
I think that RedHat also runs on SPARC, not sure if 64-bit SPARC supports 32-bit SPARC apps (or if there is even such a thing).
In general, if you have an off-the-shelf PC with an Intel or AMD CPU, 64-bit RedHat (I assume you mean RedHat Enterprise Linux, and not Fedora) will run 32-bit apps. (Unless you happened to pick up an Itanium PC, but those fairly rare.)
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