My development machine ( 32 bit Windows XP) runs excruciatingly slow when I am doing .Net development in Visual Studio 2008, thanks to the installation of Resharper. So I am thinking about switching my development machine to 64 bit Windows XP.
Not sure whether such a switch will speed up the development or not? 64 bit machines don’t have memory problem, so the memory problem with Resharper can be solved by throwing in more and more RAM.
Anyone develops using 64 bit OS? Care to share your experience?
64 bit will not solve you memory problem with Resharper 4.0, since Visual Studio 2008 runs as a 32 bit process anyway. Resharper 4.5 will deal with some of the problems, though.
PS: Here’s my post on developing under 64 bit: Using Windows Server 2008 64 bit as a development workstation