[GRLUG] 32bit vs. 64bit [Was: Random questions]

[Bob Kline]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> > > If you're using framework-heavy code like browsers, KDE or GNOME,
> > > those extra registers are helpful.
> > Seems like switching makes sense
> > then.  I assume enough people use
> > the 64-bit versions now for them to
> > be as well debugged as the 32-bit?
>
> Absolutely yes;  I'd say the 'mainstream' [whatever that is] has moved
> on to 64-bit.  At the last conference I went to there was an *informal*
> poll of 32-bit vs. 64-bit and there were only a few 32-bitters left.
>
> I'd approximate that about 3 years ago [late 2009] everything on 64-bit
> just-worked.  Any remaining bugs have been shaken out of any package
> that has an active maintainer.
>
>
> It does sound like more than time
to switch.  My mindset was still
that the 64-bit versions had the ring
of experimental.

Time to join the modern world...

   -- Bob


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