[ILUG] Speccing a new PC

[Pádraig Brady]

On 16/09/10 16:18, John P. Looney wrote:
>  64bit machines are a good bit faster than 32bit machines, for many
> reasons.
> 
>  Not just that they are more future proof.
> 
>      http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ubuntu-904-32-bit-vs-64-bit-benchmarks
>      http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=998&num=1
> 
>  Serious changes there. Yeah, you lose a little in extra big pointers, but
> it's small fry. No reason not to.

Yep 64 bit can help a lot for low level bit flippy stuff
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commit;h=df906d2e
Also 64 bit is was current devs usually use so has a better chance of working.
Even flash works on 64 bit as of today :-P
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/09/flash-player-square.html

cheers,
Pádraig.