[linux-audio-user] Academic question about AMD64 and audio

[studio-64]

Hi
I have been running 64 on my Audio pc for a few months now and would say 
it seems
to cruise along better re CPU usage but as I dont know how to measure 
this I cant give you
a  total.

Just seems faster.

Bob

Steve Harris wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:11:59 -0700, thewade wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>
>>I have a purely academic question stemming from an accidental install on 
>>my part:
>>Will my AMD64 laptop run PD and other sound apps (using mingo's RT 
>>patched kernels) faster in native 64-bit linux or faster as a 
>>conventional 32-bit linux?
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>Unless you've got more than 3 gig of ram I doubt it will make much
>difference. 32bit binaries are smaller, and hence faster, but there are a
>couple of 64bit only instructions that the compiler might use that could
>give some speed benefit.
>
>If you try it, why dont you measure the difference and tell us?
>
>Personally I'd be supprised if the 64bit version is measurably faster, but
>I'm often supprised :)
>
>- Steve
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