> Most of the time 64 bit makes things slower I am aware that this is strictly andecotal, but when I got my first AMD64 system, I first ran Gentoo/x86 on it, a

> Most of the time 64 bit makes things slower I am aware that this is strictly andecotal, but when I got my first AMD64 system, I first ran Gentoo/x86 on it, and eventually I reinstalled Gentoo/amd64. I did not notice any performance difference at all. Now, amd64 (x64, x86_64, whatever you may call it) has more registers than plain x86, so maybe the differences cancel each other out in this specific case.