On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM, brian m. carlson < [email protected]> wrote:
> Whether you'll see any performance improvement is dependent on what the > software does. Perhaps you will. There are some cases where I do in my > own code. In general, though, most people don't. If you want to build > this software as 64-bit and Debian does not provide 64-bit versions of > those libraries, you'll have to build your own 64-bit copies by hand. > Again, whether there's any performance improvement from doing that is > dependent on the particular programs and libraries. > > I just hope like hell right now that in my case also, sparc32 provides if not better, but comparable performance to this application because after 3 days of struggle, I've managed to build it successfully except it's built as " ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC32PLUS" who knows if this will perform better or worse than a 64-bit version *sigh*
