On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 08:47:24PM +0200, Martin Kolman wrote: > Yeah, I've recently switched an old Atom A330[0] based system[1] with > 2 GB of RAM (that's the maximum it supports) from a 32-bit to a 64-bit > based distro (after finding out it can actually run 64-bit code). It > has been running just fine and actually feels a bit faster now.
That's been my experience too; the architectural improvements for x86_64 over i686 yielded a noticable performance boost that more than offset the memory usage penalty of larger pointer sizes, even for traditionally-RAM-intensive stuff like cross-compiling. - Solomon -- Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org High Springs, FL ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^ Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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