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Ubuntu 14.10 Linux 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance

Soon as you start tossing any very CPU bound workloads that compile fine against x86_64, the performance improvements on modern Intel/AMD hardware become very noticeable...

Using the Ubuntu 64-bit software generally leads to much better performance, as we've shown in our 32-bit vs. 64-bit Linux comparisons going back years.