Jay Anderson wrote > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:03 PM, SoundsFromSound > <
> soundsfromsound@ > > wrote: >> I usually don't think twice about this sort of thing, I always reach for >> x64 >> installers since all my systems here are 64bit. The only exception maybe >> is >> something like Python or something odd that is finicky... >> >> But, as far as LilyPond goes, is there any real-world benefit to using >> the >> 64bit install (on a 64bit OS) vs. the 32bit install (on 64bit OS)? Does >> RAM >> ever really being to be an issue with LilyPond? I've never seen resource >> spikes at all so maybe I'm just the minority here, but could someone tell >> me >> what the differences are between these installers? > > For some of my larger projects memory usage climbs above 4GB (max > 32-bit address space). So using 64-bit is very nice. I've never > benchmarked speed of 32-bit versus 64-bit though. > > -----Jay > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Wow, really? I never thought editing text files (.ly) would ever get close to 4GB of RAM. Maybe I'll try a quick benchmark here... Thanks! ----- composer | sound designer LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/64-bit-vs-32-bit-LilyPond-GNU-Linux-tp156754p156758.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user