Exactly as Mark Stanton said, the major Linux distros all build for both
x86 and X86-64.
Moreover, it's also trivial to run a x86 (32bit) application on a x86-64
(64bit) Linux OS. You don't even have to think about it. YOu just install
the 32bit binaries/libraries and run it. For an application like
MuseScore, there's no technical advantage to building and running the
x86-64 binaries, since MuseScore doesn't really have a need for the 64bit
addressing. But on the other hand, since it's trivial to build and deliver
both (since the source code is already properly ported to x86-64, with
64bit-safe typing), there's no reason *not* to build and deliver for both
x86 and x86-64.
There are lots of arguments about the performance benefits of 64bit
software in Linux, most of which are based simply on anecdotal evidence and
which are overly dependent greatly on the widely varying specifics of each
application.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Mark Stanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the Linux world there's no extra cost for a 64bit build, do it's
> very common, I'd guess much more common than in the Windows world.
> Since that is one of the things we go to linux for, I think it would
> upset most linux users not to have a 64 build. It would certainly
> upset *this* linux user.
>
> Regards
> Mark Stanton
>
>
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