[gdal-dev] GDAL on 64 bit environments

[Mateusz Loskot]

Gianni Barrotta wrote:
> Ok, I'm going to try with the 32 bit FWTools, probably it won't use the full
> 64 bit CPU, am I wrong?

Regarding performance advantage, generally speaking, yes it won't.
Your programs will run as it are executed on 32-bit system. 
Specifically, depends on actual architecture [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#32_vs_64_bit
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