Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On February 12, 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>>> So, the only good reason to move to amd64 is when you buy a 64 bit >>>> machine >>>> >>> I have 1G RAM and it's a laptop doesn't serve huge databases so I >>> guess despite if my CPU is 64 or 32 bits, I'll just stick with the 32 >>> version, works great... >>> >> Agreed. You have no obvious benefits from a 64 bit arch. You also get to >> not have to struggle with flash wondering if it will work this time or >> not ;-) >> > > just a bit of personal experience: flash works beter using nspluginwrapper in > 64bit mode because when it hangs - it's a simple as shooting it's wrapper > process and not the entire FF. > > oh, and for whatever reason wine performs better under 64 bit OS rather than > 32. Don't have any other proof then my own experience but Diablo LOD runs > much smoother once I've rebuilt my system with 64bit with the same useflags > and everything else. > I would agree that wine does seem to run better on the 64bit arch. One other thing that I've noticed with a 64bit binary, specifically HandBrake, is that video encoding is *much* faster then it is with a 32bit binary.
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