Is ardour ready for 64bit environment?
I got a AMD64, and is pondering installing a 64bit distro, but I don’t really know how this will affect my setup of alsa/jack/ardour etc…
I can testify – got AMD64-FX55 a while ago on dual PCI-X (for 4-screens) around summar last year… Installed SLAMD64 (64-bit distro based off Slackware) 10.2 – compiled everything from scratch and no problems with anything Ardour, Jack, LADSPA, plugins, (etc.) – Even ran UT2004-amd64 to benchmark.
I did switch back to 32-bit because of the lack of 3rd party 64-bit FireFox plugins and ins
talling a duplicate set of 32-bit libs (32-bit FireFox, and the rest from Pango, expat, libICE, etc… as well as re-bit gnu ld/libc stuff) – started taking more memory
And running even one app in 32-bit on an AMD64 bit machine with Linux kernel (that has 32-bit support enabled) slows things down. (the whole system)
BTW> UT2004 (32-bit) benchmarks where about the same (no big difference, within 0.2%)…
Nope… not as far as I know. I run a 64 bit distro, however, to be able to use any 32 bit plugins within firefox (flash player, for example), it’s necessary to run a 32 bit browser instead of the 64 bit version.
Simply run the firefox 32 bit binary. Then you can use any 32 bit plugins with it.