On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 17:18 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > > I've never tried 64-bit -- does it provide any concrete benefits? I've > always been a bit intimidated by all of the posts about multilib > craziness, and it didn't seem like it would be worth it ... :) You get access to a lot more cpu registers, which in theory makes things go faster. There is a penalty in that objects take up more memory space. Multilib is only a concern if you want to continue running something 32bit. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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