On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:30:12PM +0200, Fritz Meissner wrote: > Yes, you can install the 32 bit version. From what I have heard, the > performance difference is not significant, but the major benefit of 64 > bit is being able to address more than 4 GB of memory, which is the > limit of what a 32 bit OS can use. For workstation/desktop users, is that really a bigger difference than the extra registers or the extra wide registers? 32bit linux can use more than 4 gigs of ram even though any individual program is limited. However, I don't seem to see all that many audio (or general use desktop) programs, that need more than 2 gigs of RAM. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
