in reply to Large Windows network: One 32 bit perl or 32 and 64 bit perls?

I'd set up a windows share for perl (say p:) on the clients and have it point to the server with the appropriate 32/64-bit build. You can do this via user group setting at the domain controller and you probably have the procedures already in place for doing so.

Also, any frequently loaded modules will get cached locally by the OS.

The main advantage of 64-bit is that it allows for access to (much) more than 2GB of ram (if you have the hardware). It also seems to run a little bit faster than 32-bit on 64-bit. 64-bit ints are nice also.

The biggest limitation is that there is no Win64::* yet.

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