[PD] Academic question about AMD64 and audio

[amd]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:11:59PM -0700, thewade wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a purely academic question stemming from an accidental install on 
> my part:
> Will my AMD64 laptop run PD and other sound apps (using mingo's RT 
> patched kernels) faster in native 64-bit linux or faster as a 
> conventional 32-bit linux?

amd64 has a number of general-purpose registers that are not available in 32-bit mode, which means code compiled for 64bit will be faster regardless of whether it was specially optimized for 64bit, or uses >4gb of ram..the charts i saw at anandtech put it at around 10-25%..

> 
> I ask this because I am about to install the "correct" 64-bit linux but 
> I will then have array problems and other PD errors that have not yet 
> been solved... So if my machine is faster in 64 -bit linux the 
> shortcommings of 64-bit PD are outweighed by the speed gain.
> 
> Thanks all!
> -thewade
> 
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