Is there any advantage in using a 64 bit distro for audio?
Do the
advantages outweigh the difficulties?
For what I do, live MIDI synthesis, the advantages do outweigh the
difficulties. First of all, when I compile application source, I
compile -march=native -mtune=native. This gives significant
performance increases. I don't know what would happen if I tried
that on a 32-bit OS running on 64-bit hardware, but even if the
compilation worked, the result will not use the full CPU
capability. And second, recompiling or not, memory management in
general is much more efficient, because larger chunks can be moved
in single operations.