So to answer my original thread question (in simple terms) are you saying that fewer loads, operations and stores makes the 64 bit faster? The less the processor has to do the faster it will finish the task? In general yes with a caveat. First, an application built in 64-bit mode is not always faster than the same application running in 32-bit mode, but in many cases this will be
On Thursday 07 September 2006 12:07 pm, Primm wrote:
true. To answer your original question, IMHO definitely install the 64-bit
OS. And as a previous poster mentioned, his graphics are rendering much
faster. Probably, the reason for that is the expanded xmm stuff.
Just a note that Firefox on SuSE 10.1:
Help reports Mozilla/5.0 (X11: U; Linux i686 (x86_64)
But a file reports it as a 32-bit executable, which is good because most of
the plugins are only 32-bit today.
gaf@gaflap:~> file /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared
libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, stripped
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Jerry Feldman