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

[Jay Anderson]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:03 PM, SoundsFromSound
<address@hidden> 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.

-----Jay