[PlanetCCRMA] 32 & 64 bit FC

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 17:29 +0000, ilya .d wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:38:29AM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 06:53 +0100, joey.a wrote:
> > > Sorry, I am still a bit confused here. Do the various software packages
> > > which are still 32 bits actually already run on 64 bit versions of FC, or
> > > not?
> > > 
> > > If not, might I be better off installing a 32 bit version of FC initially?
> > 
> > The 32 bit version of fc is the one that has the most packages
> > available. Stuff like pd and supercollider (as noted in a different
> > thread) are missing. Depending on what software you need you might be
> > better off with the 32 bit version (which will run just fine on 64 bit
> > capable hardware). 
>
> do you think there any performance improvments comparing 64bit pkgs
> agains 32bit once on the same system ?

I don't have any experience comparing the two of them. My feeling is
that you perhaps would see a few percent improvement. Others will surely
disagree (it depends on what you test, how you test it, etc, etc). 

We are blissfully running 32 bit Fedora in our 64 bit
workstations... :-)

-- Fernando