are there differences in speed between 32 bit and 64 bit Puppy's?
by Brant from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5CN83)
As a project (to fill time in this coronavirus season) I decided to upgrade an elderly Acer Aspire laptop I had been given: I doubled the RAM, to 2 Gb, and replaced the original HDD with a small SSD I had sitting around, and then reinstalled Puppy 8.
I meant to install the 64 bit version that I had used before, but picked up the wrong flash-drive, and installed the 32bit. It seems to run fine.
This prompted me to wonder, if the RAM is the same (3 Gb or less) will a 64 bit version necessarily run faster than a 32 bit? (I imagine that the same question could be asked of any operating system, but given that Puppy is such a light-weight system, I thought differences might be clearer).
Are the majority of Puppy users using 64 bit by now?
I meant to install the 64 bit version that I had used before, but picked up the wrong flash-drive, and installed the 32bit. It seems to run fine.
This prompted me to wonder, if the RAM is the same (3 Gb or less) will a 64 bit version necessarily run faster than a 32 bit? (I imagine that the same question could be asked of any operating system, but given that Puppy is such a light-weight system, I thought differences might be clearer).
Are the majority of Puppy users using 64 bit by now?