[ltp] How much performance improvement going from 32-bit to 64-bit linux?

[Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)]

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Joerg Bruehe:

> *If* you do the switch, a report might be interesting.

I=E2=80=99m running a 64-bit Ubuntu Jaunty and everything (including 64-bit
Flash 10) works. I=E2=80=99m running it mostly for the sake of Ruby perform=
ance
=E2=80=93 the Fixnum class (mapped to the arch=E2=80=99s int) goes up to 2^=
62-1, rather
than just up to 2^30-1, which maps to performance increase in my PhD
code (I know I should be using FFI or Inline C or Ruby2C in performance
bottlenecks, but I haven=E2=80=99t gotten there yet).

Also, OGG encoding feels faster (but I haven=E2=80=99t done any real testin=
g).

=E2=80=94 Shot
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