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32 or 64 whats the diffrents
i started using ubuntu 64 bit and i put songbird 64 on it but i want to now whats the diffrent's with the 32 bit and the 64 bits version of songbird
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Inappropriate?Probably not much.
The 64bit architecture only really benefits:
1) People who need really really large or extremely precise numbers (which songbird probably doesn't, though the occasional codec can be rewritten to get some speed benefit (but rare)
2) Programs which need extremely large amounts of ram (over 3GB). Whilst songbird can benefit from more ram, I'd be someone surprised if songbird could benefit from that much
3) RAM is less efficient in 64bit mode. Certain data structures (known as pointers), use 64bits of ram instead of only 32bits.
So whilst I have no idea if 64bit songbird really uses 64bit, I'd be surprised if it would run faster anyway on a 64bit platform even if it was. I know though Songbird uses some weird memory magic to work properly, so maybe a 64bit release has some special compatibility fixes.
To know for sure, go to terminal, and type "file blahblahblahsongbirddirectory/songbird-bin", and it should tell you if songbird is compiled for 64bit mode or 32bit
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