Excerpts from Smith Dhumbumroong's message of Thursday 12-Nov-09 10:49am: > Better to install both Arch 32-bit and 64-bit on the same machine > (dual boot) and run the tests. I've already did it. > from my personal experience certain operations, such as video/music > encoding, is a _lot_ faster on 64-bit. I didn't timed it back then, > but it was almost twice faster than on 32-bit. Well, in my ThinkPad R61 (Core2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz) I got 1.1 times difference (in favour of 64-bit) with couple of videofiles encoded. (By the way, it means that VM performs almost 1.5 worse then the real HW). Thanks, Sergey
