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Imagine the same hardware running Windows XP 32bit, or Windows XP 64bit..
(being that it’s a 64bit processor currently running XP 32bit)
2gigs of ram…
Will the performance of Visual Studio benefit from going to the 64bit OS?
The hardware and ram is currently out of my control… If I could throw more hardware or ram at it I would.
For 2 GB of RAM, most likely not. The biggest advantage of 64-bit is the additional address space. With 2GB of physical RAM, 32-bit OS’s can map all of physical memory.
Above 3GB 64-bit OS does give some benefit, since some of your physical memory may be unusable on 32-bit OS’s due to devices mapping physical addresses for their own use.
And obviously if you want to use above 4 GB of memory you should absolutely go for a 64-bit OS.