Re: 64-bit vs 32-bit LilyPond (GNU/Linux)

[SoundsFromSound]

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.
> 
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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!



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