On 06/18/2010 03:21 PM, Łukasz Jagiełło wrote: > 2010/6/18 Sam Varshavchik<mr...@courier-mta.com>: > >> Minor differences are that 64 bit applications are slightly faster, and 64 >> bit lets you use more RAM. >> > Not always it's faster, everything depend of application one will be > faster one will be slower. > > Its true that the 64 bit build of some apps can be slower than the 32 bit builds. However, its rarely more than a few percent. Hardly noticeable, really. On the other hand, many compute intensive applications that can make good use of the improvements in the 64 bit instruction set really fly in a 64 bit build, compared to a 32 bit build.
The memory footprint of 64 bit builds can be larger, but its not usually by much. Overall, if your pentium/athlon machine can run a 64 bit system its hard to imagine a sane reason for not doing so. The few things you must still run 32 bit, like firefox + flash, run just as well on a 64 bit system as on a 32 bit one. Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
