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

[Volker Krueger]

Hi,

I have switched to 64 bit Suse and now lately Ubuntu already a long time
ago because MATLAB is much faster with 64bit.
Other than that, I always had the feeling that 64 bit runs smoother, but
that can als be due to my imagination.
But I have not at all experienced any loss in usability compared to 32
bit. Java used to be a problem, but even that is fixed.

My laptops/workstations never had less than 4Gig of memory.

best,
Volker




Damjan wrote:
>> The same for me. I noticed NO improvement on performance. However I started
>> having a whole new category of problems. No Flash, problems with certain
>> software, no Firefox, having to run incompatible apps in chroot jails,
>> automatic system updates which every time need some attention because you
>> always need to manually tweak something etc. Just imagine having nVidia or
>> ATI drivers and having to recompile and re-re everything every time there's
>> a tiny update to Xorg or some other related component. It's not worth it if
>> you don't absolutely need it. If you need to use more memory than 3GB use a
>> "bigmem" kernel .
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> No Firefox and Flash!?!
> I'm running ArchLinux and it has both (and they work just fine).
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> The only problem is the ATI catalyst drivers they need recompiling and
> reinstalling - but that's jsut because ArchLinux developers removed
> official support for them.
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