AMD64 vs. i386, any new observations?

[Ari Torhamo]

On ke, 2007-10-03 at 20:48 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:

> > > > > 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.


I missed the "on wine" part - sorry. I know - "why aren't people reading
properly the messages they are replying to" :-)

Ari