On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 21:37 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: > Its true that the 64 bit build of some apps can be slower than the 32 > bit builds. However, its rarely more than a few percent. Hardly > noticeable, really. On the other hand, many compute intensive > applications that can make good use of the improvements in the 64 bit > instruction set really fly in a 64 bit build, compared to a 32 bit build. > > The memory footprint of 64 bit builds can be larger, but its not usually > by much. > > Overall, if your pentium/athlon machine can run a 64 bit system its hard > to imagine a sane reason for not doing so. The few things you must still > run 32 bit, like firefox + flash, run just as well on a 64 bit system as > on a 32 bit one. Disagree here, as Firefox + flash (both 64bit) run just fine as is and don't need 32bit. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Best lil town on Earth!" -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
