I recently changed from a 64 bit install to a 32 bit install (also Gentoo). I have 4GB of RAM and that uses the highmem function.. there is supposed to be an extra step to address the RAM.. but I don't see any negative impact on performance at all... Only thing I have noticed is that more apps are able to compile, I was going to use VST's .. but I have so much hardware that I never really get beyond LADSPA plugins to compliment the hardware.. I also am using an NVIDIA video card (7600GS silent).. simply because my dual monitor system works pretty much automagically with the nvidia-settings tool... I have onboard ATI Drivers on my mobo.. but have disabled them and don't intend to use them due to shared RAM... Even though RAM is cheap I believe having discrete video RAM is better for audio performance...strik me down if I am wrong.. I am open to suggestion. On Fri Aug 14 6:48 , Matt Henley sent: >I have my system running 64-bit Gentoo with no real problems.  32-bit and 64-bit software run on the system as long as there are corresponding libraries for the app to link to.  Ardour is compiled as 64-bit which means I cannot use VST's in it, but dssi-vst works fine since Wine seems to be 32-bit and they are run as a separate process from the 64-bit audio apps.  I haven't seen any problems with Flash/Java/ or media players.  I can't address the video card as I use an Nvidia with the Nvidia 64-bit binary driver which works fine for me.  The reason I switched to 64-bit was that I upgraded to 8 GB memory for rendering in blender.  > >Matt > >On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Hi Ismael! > >  64bit can address more memory (I think this relates to RAM. I think the > >integer size used by the CPU is larger. So good for large numbers? and for a > >lot of mem. Some people also claim in RT apps it's faster, but I don't really > >believe that. > >  32bit: All the wndows dlls will run. I guess you'lll also find more > >precompiled half-closed software pieces for 32bit. Mplayer and some other > >programs can use .dll and other windows shared libs to support audio/video > >formats and maybe more. Java shouldn't be an issue. You should only need the > >java interpreter and the rest is byte-code, that's supposed to be the same for > >all systems. but 32bit might also be nice if you're going to use VST(I)s, > >because they too are pieces of 32bit windws software. But I'm not sure how far > >the technology has gone here. > >  Kindest regards > >     Julien > > > >-------- > >Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) > > > >======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== > >http://ltsb.sourceforge.net > >the Linux TextBased Studio guide > >======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= > >http://www.juliencoder.de > >_______________________________________________ > >Linux-audio-user mailing list > >Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > >
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