We have a 64-bit HP UX server here and a 32-bit Oracle 8.1.7
If anyone has any real experience, I would like to know the advantages of buying a 64-bit Oracle 8.1.7 license for this HP server.

1. What were the performance improvements from 32-bit to 64-bit Oracle ?
2. Any new features supported by Oracle for 64-bit only like Large files support etc. I have seen a lot of debate of Oracle datafiles to be less than 2Gb or 4GB for Unix systems. (I have been running 32-bit Oracle on Windows NT with 5GB datafiles without any problem)

Thanks,
- Rajeev