[ale] Fedora 9 64 bit

[Scott Castaline]

Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:36:47AM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>   
>> No point in 64 bit unless you have more than 4 GB RAM. The PAE kernels will
>> still work up to 32 GB RAM but they are much less efficient than a full
>> 64-bit kernel.
>>     
>
> In general, that's true -- excepting 64-bit arithmatic-heacy apps, for 
> example, but x86_64 has other advantages of i386, including doubling the 
> number of registers in the processor.
>
> My daily work (heavy compiles, photo manipulation) is noticably faster 
> when running with 64-bit binaries.  
>
> (that said, my experience with sparc64 showed a slowdown in 64-bit 
>  userspace.  except, again, when heavy number-crunching was employed.
>
>  - Solomon
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Off hand, do you know if Gimp and/or Inkscape have 64 bit versions?