Re: x86_64 or i386?
- From: Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:58:01 -0400
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:38:16AM -0700, Mike Hix wrote:
I have recently upgraded my hardware, upgrading to FC5, and I'm wondering[...]
whether to use i386 or x86_64.
Any additional information about the x86_64 packages and software
availability would be nice. Google wasn't very forthcoming on the subject.
You can run i386 packages on x86_64, thanks to the frankenstein's
monstrosity that is multilib. And you'll probably see a performance
increase, but I haven't actually seen much by way of measuring the
difference in a normal desktop Linux workload on the two.
Be aware that Macromedia doesn't produce a 64-bit Flash player, so if
Youtube is important to you, you'll need to run i386 Firefox even on x86_64.
Depending on what you're doing, this may be enough of a pain that it's
easier to just stick with i386 across the board.
Thanks!
- Mike
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