I guess what I was really wondering is if there are libraries (like MMX or whatever) which the PiDiP code uses and are available only for the Intel chips and not the AMD. I'm not super up on the nuts and bolts but I thought I had recalled that AMD and Intel had non-compatible multimedia extensions (as of something like 5 years ago...maybe things have changed) and I just wanted to make sure I'll get reasonable performance on the AMD, or if PiDiP is tailored to Intel-specific architecture. This is all because I saw that statement about IA-32 on effectv and it made me nervous.
I don't know if I am hard core enough to go 64 bit OS...unless somebody tells me the performance will skyrocket...but I've made a note of this Debian link.
Thanks for the help,
-John
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jan 22, 2006, at 11:13 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote:
Le 22 Janvier 2006 22:24, cdr a écrit :
on x86_64 if your needs include running pure data you will want a
32bit chroot or multilib setup, its pretty simple and there are wiki pages explaining how to do this on debian and gentoo. ALSA and 3D hardware will still work..For Debian I found this documentation: http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64- howto.html There's a section "Using an IA32 chroot to run 32bit applications".
You can just run them in x86 mode and it should behave just like any
other x86 AFAIK. You only need this fancy chroot stuff if you want to run a 64-bit OS..hc
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