On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 15:03 +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Paul Davis schrieb: > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:52 +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote: > >>I hear quite often, that there comes a lot of Extratrouble with using > >>64versions of Linux. Especially, that most Apps are not optimized for > >>and thus run in a Legacy-Mode, that is slower then running them on a > >>32bitCPU. > > > > > > This is not true. Its important that myths like this do not spread. > > > > What is true is that it is not possible to use shared objects compiled > > for one word size with host apps compiled for another. > > So the claim, that Software must be optimized for 64bit at > sourcecode-level, to run really better on 64bit then on 32bit is incorrect? in general yes. there are a few very specialized things that one can do at the source code level to get improved performance from a 64 bit platform, but they don't affect audio software much since we deal with floating point data in general.
