What are the benefits of running ColdFusion as a 64-bit application?
Sixty-four bit computer architectures can provide higher performance than 32-bit architectures by handling more information in the same clock cycle. In addition to performance, the size of the memory space an application can use is significantly larger. Thirty-two bit computing architectures can address approximately 4GB of memory; 64-bit computing architectures can address 16EB of memory. For practical purposes today, this is an “unlimited” amount of memory, which allows memory-intensive operations such as reading in large files or returning large data sets to operate more efficiently. Applications that require more memory and execute more computations will perform better on 64-bit systems than on 32-bit systems.
