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On this day, 21-July-2007 2:08 AM, Duncan wrote: |
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> Finally... 64-bit /can/ be more secure from a hardware perspective. |
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> There's certain features built into the 64-bit extensions that improve |
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> resistance to buffer overflows and the like, or more precisely, compiling |
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> a hardened profile, as you may be doing on a server, doesn't cause the |
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> performance penalty on amd64 (generically, so em64t also) that it does on |
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> x86. If you are going to be using a hardened profile, I'd strongly |
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> recommend going 64-bit for that reason. |
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Thank you to all for sharing the opinions. I have found them very useful. |
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P.V.Anthony |
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