On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:03 PM, SoundsFromSound <soundsfromso...@gmail.com> wrote: > I usually don't think twice about this sort of thing, I always reach for x64 > installers since all my systems here are 64bit. The only exception maybe is > something like Python or something odd that is finicky... > > But, as far as LilyPond goes, is there any real-world benefit to using the > 64bit install (on a 64bit OS) vs. the 32bit install (on 64bit OS)? Does RAM > ever really being to be an issue with LilyPond? I've never seen resource > spikes at all so maybe I'm just the minority here, but could someone tell me > what the differences are between these installers?
For some of my larger projects memory usage climbs above 4GB (max 32-bit address space). So using 64-bit is very nice. I've never benchmarked speed of 32-bit versus 64-bit though. -----Jay _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
