Fedora 9 32 or 64 Bit - Which One?

[sean darcy]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> sean darcy <seandarcy2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 64 bit is a minor hassle - flash for instance,
> 
> It's what nspluginwrapper is for.
> Or you could use gnash or swfdec instead, or just not use Flash at all.
> But even the proprietary crap just works if you install nspluginwrapper.i386.
> 
>> and screwing around with multilibs.
> 
> Only if you need to run legacy 32-bit-only crap. I have F9 x86_64 running with 
> no 32-bit multilibs at all on my laptop, works just fine!
> But "yum install packagename.i386" isn't exactly hard either.
> 
>> When I looked, I couldn't find any app I used where 64bit was useful, 
>> even ffmpeg.
> 
> You just haven't noticed the speed difference.
> 
>> At the time, though, I could find very little data on this.
> 
> On all the benchmarks I've seen, 64-bit is clearly faster.

I looked at this about a year ago. I found very few real benchmarks. Are 
there some now? Any links you'd suggest?

sean