AMD 64 Bit Processor Info Wanted

[Charles Yao]

On 12/31/05, Sasha Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I use an AMD64 bit processor in Ubuntu, and find it very useful. There is
> only really one pro, you will get an operating system almost twice as fast
> as the 32-bit version. The downsides seem to be that the macromedia flash
> plugin doesn't work yet in 64-bit and firefox, at least for me, seems to
> exhibit a degree of instability. I like 64-it because I do a lot of video
> encodin and so the extra speed is very useful for me.
>
> With regard to your question about recompiling, You will have to recompile
> applications, probably, because if they are compiled with 32-bit libraries,
> they will not work with 64-bit compiles, however, any programs you got
> through synaptic will work just as well in 64-bit as in 32-bit, if not
> better.
>
> Probably not worth the effort unless you need the extra processing power
> for something specific.
>
> Sasha
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Hi Sasha,

Im planning to use an AMD 64 for a small file server in our office. Is there
a large speed difference over the Pentium 4's?

Charles


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