Our Last Time Benchmarking Ubuntu 32-bit vs. 64-bit

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 30 September 2017 at 10:00 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 83 Comments.
Ubuntu 17.10 32-bit i686 vs. 64-bit
Ubuntu 17.10 32-bit i686 vs. 64-bit

Even compiling for x86_64 can be a bit faster than targeting i686.

Ubuntu 17.10 32-bit i686 vs. 64-bit

Ray-tracing is also faster.

Ubuntu 17.10 32-bit i686 vs. 64-bit
Ubuntu 17.10 32-bit i686 vs. 64-bit

Multimedia encoding also does much better.

Ubuntu 17.10 32-bit i686 vs. 64-bit

OpenSSL meanwhile runs multiple times faster in x86_64.


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