Hi I have been running 64 on my Audio pc for a few months now and would say it seems to cruise along better re CPU usage but as I dont know how to measure this I cant give you a total. Just seems faster. Bob Steve Harris wrote: >On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:11:59 -0700, thewade wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>I have a purely academic question stemming from an accidental install on >>my part: >>Will my AMD64 laptop run PD and other sound apps (using mingo's RT >>patched kernels) faster in native 64-bit linux or faster as a >>conventional 32-bit linux? >> >> > >Unless you've got more than 3 gig of ram I doubt it will make much >difference. 32bit binaries are smaller, and hence faster, but there are a >couple of 64bit only instructions that the compiler might use that could >give some speed benefit. > >If you try it, why dont you measure the difference and tell us? > >Personally I'd be supprised if the 64bit version is measurably faster, but >I'm often supprised :) > >- Steve > > >
