[LAU] Pros and cons of 64 bit Linux

[Matt Henley]

I have my system running 64-bit Gentoo with no real problems.  32-bit and
64-bit software run on the system as long as there are corresponding
libraries for the app to link to.  Ardour is compiled as 64-bit which means
I cannot use VST's in it, but dssi-vst works fine since Wine seems to be
32-bit and they are run as a separate process from the 64-bit audio apps.
 I haven't seen any problems with Flash/Java/ or media players.  I can't
address the video card as I use an Nvidia with the Nvidia 64-bit binary
driver which works fine for me.  The reason I switched to 64-bit was that I
upgraded to 8 GB memory for rendering in blender.
Matt

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Julien Claassen <julien at c-lab.de> wrote:

> Hi Ismael!
>   64bit can address more memory (I think this relates to RAM. I think the
> integer size used by the CPU is larger. So good for large numbers? and for
> a
> lot of mem. Some people also claim in RT apps it's faster, but I don't
> really
> believe that.
>   32bit: All the wndows dlls will run. I guess you'lll also find more
> precompiled half-closed software pieces for 32bit. Mplayer and some other
> programs can use .dll and other windows shared libs to support audio/video
> formats and maybe more. Java shouldn't be an issue. You should only need
> the
> java interpreter and the rest is byte-code, that's supposed to be the same
> for
> all systems. but 32bit might also be nice if you're going to use VST(I)s,
> because they too are pieces of 32bit windws software. But I'm not sure how
> far
> the technology has gone here.
>   Kindest regards
>         Julien
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