my test drive of a 64 bit slack distro
bluewhite-64 well so far it's slackware the exact same set up as slack
except
configure scripts scroll by so fast that there is no hope at all
of reading any thing but the last page
bzip2 works as fast on 64bits as gzip works on 32bits
switching between browser tabs is noticeably faster
building and installing the wifi modules was almost instantaneous
programs start up faster
boot time is about the same (a little faster but not by much)
over all the computer the computer is 2 to 3.5 times faster
installing browser plugins is more work (the 32bit ones need niswaper)
over all I'd say if your chip set and CPU are made for 64bit operation
go for it
it's worth the little extra work for the performance gain
Last edited by rob.rice; 08-15-2008 at 01:44 PM.
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