On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:52 PM, David Gerard <dgerard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ubuntu-904-32-bit-vs-64-bit-benchmarks > > Just a bit faster, but we'll have a lot of gamers and other such > performance nerds here ;-) > > (This is talking about Linux itself being the 32-bit or 64-bit > version, not whether Wine is set up to run 32-bit or 64-bit binaries.) > > I know Dan Kegel has frequently recommended on this list that unless > you really need that much memory, you shouldn't bother with 64-bit. > > However - it would be nice to have numbers for Windows programs > running on Wine on a 32-bit or 64-bit Linux. Given the Windows > programs are all 32-bit at this stage. > > So. Anyone got a machine they want to dual-boot as 32-bit or 64-bit > Linux, and give us some numbers on how the same Windows programs > perform in the same version of Wine? > > > - d. > > It wouldn't exactly be the 'same version', since you'd have it compiled on different architectures/compilers/libraries/etc. That said, you'd probably want a more exact benchmark, e.g., 3Dmark or the like. -- -Austin
