On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:52 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
wrote:> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ubuntu-904-32-bit-vs-64-bit-benchmarks
>
> Just a bit faster, but we'll have a lot of gamers and other such
> performance nerds here ;-)
>
> (This is talking about Linux itself being the 32-bit or 64-bit
> version, not whether Wine is set up to run 32-bit or 64-bit binaries.)
>
> I know Dan Kegel has frequently recommended on this list that unless
> you really need that much memory, you shouldn't bother with 64-bit.
>
> However - it would be nice to have numbers for Windows programs
> running on Wine on a 32-bit or 64-bit Linux. Given the Windows
> programs are all 32-bit at this stage.
>
> So. Anyone got a machine they want to dual-boot as 32-bit or 64-bit
> Linux, and give us some numbers on how the same Windows programs
> perform in the same version of Wine?
>
>
> - d.
>
>
It wouldn't exactly be the 'same version', since you'd have it
compiled on different architectures/compilers/libraries/etc.
That said, you'd probably want a more exact benchmark, e.g., 3Dmark or the
like.
--
-Austin