[sldev] Numbers on 32-bit vs 64-bit Linux deskop adoption

[Carlo Wood]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 05:47:06PM -0700, Dzonatas Sol wrote:
> enough for productivity. Only my newer 64 bit system, I have e-mail, a few IDEs
> left open, several sessions of iceweasel, music player,  compiz, about 15
> shells sessions, 8 virtual desktops, and quite often compiling the viewer over
> and over... and I still remain productive. Yes, there are some freakin' obvious
> gains with the amount of productivity that can be achieved with 64 bit systems.

Me too(tm), but I think is more related to having for cores (and the fact that
the viewer only uses one core effectively).

The obvious advantage of running the viewer 64bit is that it can use the
same shared libraries as everything else on my machine. If I was forced to
run 32bit (I wouldn't, even) then I'd need to have a GB of shared libraries
in RAM solely for the sake of the viewer alone.

I'm not going to talk about advantages of processing things with 64bit
instead of 32bit (although in some cases I've seen a factor of two speed
increase) because the viewer is written so inefficient, it would be a
lot easier to gain speed elsewhere.

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>