any benefit to 64-bit?

[Andriy Rysin]

Not sure if very KDE code will get a big benefit, but from my experience 
CPU intensive tasks definitely gain speed, sometimes around 20-30%:
bzip2 gave me around 27% speedup, kuickshow started to 
render/scale/rotate big pictures instantly without delay 1s delay... 
That's why I actually did buy Turion64 after reading ton's of reviews 
and they don't lie - 64bit more is more powerful even if you don't go 
for terabytes of RAM :)
On the other hand you'd have to face some shortage of binary only apps 
and drivers: Adobe Reader, flash plugin, win32 codecs for mplayer, NDIS 
drivers are harder to get....
That's why I work in 32bit mode most of the time but have a separate 
/usr partition to experiment with 64bit stuff and check if it's getting 
any closer...

good luck,
Andriy

Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> I am about to upgrade to Fedora Core 5, and was wondering if there's any 
> benefit to using the 64-bit release since I have an Athlon-64. Does KDE 
> benefit from 64- over 32-bit packages?
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