AMD64 vs. i386, any new observations?

[Michael R. Head]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 03:04 +0300, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> On ma, 2007-10-01 at 12:37 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 11:40 +0300, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> > > On su, 2007-09-30 at 22:53 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:42 -0700, Twist O'Connor wrote:
> > > > > what you CAN do is just use wine and then download the windows version
> > > > > of firefox.... then flash will work fine
> > > > 
> > > > Does firefox and flash work fine on wine on amd64?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Works fine here on my AMD64 installation. Flash was slow on many pages
> > > until a couple of days ago, when I got compiz to work on my system. For
> > > some reason that seems to have made flash to work faster. Or then it was
> > > just a well timed coincidence.
> > 
> > Is that the native apps or the win64 apps under wine? 
> 
> 
> The native applications. I have little experience of wine and none in
> AMD64.

Right, well, I was asking about wine, since that was the original
suggestion (to use flash and shockwave under wine).

I personally have been using flash+nspluginwrapper on my amd64 desktop
with gutsy, and it works fine for me, but of course, no shockwave, since
that's only available on Windows.

> Ari
> 
> 
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