How long will 64bit Ubuntu users have to wait?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:01:51PM -0400, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> Kilz _ wrote:
> >So I can expect Ubuntu 64bit to look good but not work to good?
> 
> I have been following this discussion and one thing that strikes me as odd, 
> is that you never actually gave any good reason
> as to why do you insist on running your Ubuntu in 64-bit mode. True, there 
> are some benefits to 64-bit, but most of them are
> not anywhere near the realm of common desktop usage.

On x86_64 (unlike most other 64-bit platforms with 32-bit ancestry), native
64-bit applications often perform better.  I haven't seen any measurements
for desktop usage, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's somewhat faster to
run native.

Of course, whether that bit of performance is worth the tradeoff is left to
the user to decide for now.

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 - mdz