david wrote: > Just curious, but I've heard that 64-bit OSes are slower than 32-bit > ones. That seems odd to me. Any truth to it? > I recently published an article superficially comparing the 64-bit 64 Studio distro with the 32-bit JAD distro. Both are running on AMD64 CPUs here (3200+ and 3800+), the JAD system is running on the faster of the two. I didn't do a lot of scientific comparison, but Ardour's status display was revealing, its performance was clearly superior on the 64-bit box. I also edited some video files with LiVES, again with much better performance on 64 Studio. However, 32-bit JAD has much to recommend it, so please don't take this comparison as meaningful beyond certain bounds (and I think a 64-bit JAD is already in the works). Obviously the memory handling capacity is much greater on the 64-bit machine, and I expect that we'll all be running 64-bit boxes eventually. Best, dp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
