On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 09:32:03 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Wasn't the drive to 64 bit more about accessing more RAM?
>
> I went 64 bit on my desktops for no good reason. The boards were there.
> Linux could drive them. Why not? Maybe a bit faster in computationally
> bound stuff like video processing
>
Agreed. I didn't notice much speed-up, if any, when I moved my Fedora
systems from 32bit to 64 bit on the same hardware.

> Biggest speed up for ME was SSD. Once you have enough RAM that is
>
Yep. When my Lenovo R61i's  120 GB HDD died I replaced it with a Sandisk
128GB SSD - mainly because its disk supporting hardware wouldn't accept
any disks I could buy (smallest one anywhere was 320GB).

Now disk intensive operations that DON'T involve multiple accesses to the
same file, e.g. booting it, backups and system upgrades are much faster
than before but repeat compilation speeds and, of course, CPU intensive
tasks such as rkhunter scans for binary changes, haven't changed very
much at all.


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