On 27/04/18 11:30, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:46:30 +0200) it happened Andreas Neumann
>  wrote in :
>
>> Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>>
>>> Why do you want a 64 bit build?
>>
>> Because 64 bit are twice as good as 32 bit?
>>
>> SCNR
>
> Not even in theory, I did some web searching for that question myself,
> wanted benchmarks.
>
> started reading here:
>  
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/49466/raspberry-pi-3-and-64-bit
-kernel-differences-between-armv7-and-armv8
>  
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=138385&sid=9aaac4bc075d
b741ec8137e188b2956e
>
> Things may even slow down.
>
This argument raged when 64 BIT INTEL came out. I read it up
extensively. And then went 64bit and never looked back. Graphics
processing was a LOT better.

And indeed anything that accesses memory in large chunks is twice as good.

Disk performance and file sizes were slightly worse, that's all.


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