[mdlug] Time to jump to 64-bit?

[Wolfger]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Ingles, Raymond
<Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:

>  I understand that the 64-bit instruction set has extra registers and
> such, which can provide a boost of a few percentage points in some
> tasks. But I've heard that there's problems with Flash support, and I
> use Wine and some emulator stuff to run older Windows games. Overall, I
> don't know if the benefits of 64-bit would outweigh the drawbacks in my
> case.

I used to shy away from 64-bit because of all the problems, but I
decided to try again about 6 months ago (Kubuntu Jaunty beta), and I
haven't looked back. Flash works as well as it ever does in Linux, and
I've had no noticeable WINE issues (everything I used to run still
works)

Now how much of that is due to Ubuntu auto-magically installing some
32-bit stuff without me realizing it? No idea.

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