switch from 32bit to 64bit easily?

iggy · 2009-01-30 11:03:34

hello!

i think about switching from 32bit to 64bit. is it possible without any risks?

can i just "reinstall" my hole system (all my user related stuff, settings and so on are saved on an extra home partition)? after that can i still log in into my kde4?

is it worth to switch? will i notice some performance enhancement? (i am a java developer and i am heating-up my system very hard, eclipse + tomcat-server, just many java processes, you know )

thx iggy

iggy · 2009-01-30 14:34:49

ok, read about it in the wiki and it should be no problem.

but, now i want to know, if there is a repository for all the lib32-packages from aur?
i need it e.g. for wine. but i don't want to build them all

Last edited by iggy (2009-01-30 14:35:17)

rsambuca · 2009-01-30 15:52:12

There is a search feature in the AUR. If you use it you will find the 126 different lib32 packages.

Ranguvar · 2009-01-30 17:05:22

rsambuca wrote:

There is a search feature in the AUR. If you use it you will find the 126 different lib32 packages.

Read what they said again They know they're offered in the AUR - they want a binary repo.

@iggy: I don't think so. The archlinux.fr repo might have some. It's not a big deal - you don't need all the lib32s, and compiling them is usually very fast.

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fukawi2 · 2009-01-30 23:02:48

Ranguvar wrote:

...nad compiling them is usually very fast.

Even more so with a 64-bit system

Ranguvar · 2009-01-30 23:14:21

fukawi2 wrote:

Ranguvar wrote:
...nad compiling them is usually very fast.
Even more so with a 64-bit system

Actually, I'm guessing that the time it takes GCC to optimize for more instruction sets is more than the time saved by having a GCC optimized for those instruction sets and with 64-bit registers. So, it'll take longer.

fukawi2 · 2009-01-31 05:55:16

Ranguvar wrote:

Actually, I'm guessing that the time it takes GCC to optimize for more instruction sets is more than the time saved by having a GCC optimized for those instruction sets and with 64-bit registers. So, it'll take longer.

I've always found it faster... Maybe it's just a perception thing...

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#1 2009-01-30 11:03:34

switch from 32bit to 64bit easily?

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Re: switch from 32bit to 64bit easily?

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