64-bit vs 32, speed difference

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm setting up a system with three boxes and Xubuntu. The firewall
> and the X-terminal are Intel Atom based, so have to run the i386
> release. The main machine is a core 2 duo, so could (currently
> does) run the 64-bit version.
>
> It would be easier to manage, especially for caching updates,
> if all three ran the same system. My question is how much
> performance do I lose switching the main box to i386?
>
> It is a personal system. Browsing, Open Office, playing
> music & movies, some development stuff, mainly using
> Dr Scheme.
>
> --
> Sandy Harris,
> Quanzhou, Fujian, China


Depending on the amount of RAM available you may even gain some
performance by running i386. One of the important features of the
64-bit OSs is the possibility af addressing more than 4 GiB RAM.


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