Placebo ? Tried x86_64 arch and it seems to be faster than i686

I don't know if it was placebo effect but when I've tried yesterday arch64 with exactly same packages installed and kernel too (modules and daemons same too) I've had a feeling that all programs loads faster. Today when I switched back to i686 on this machine (C2D T5600 2GB RAM nvidia 7600GO) I'm in pain that everything is so sloooowwww. I think it's a placebo effect but I'm sure - when flash and all a few apps will be ported to x86_64 I'll switch.
What do you think ? Is it possible to see the difference ?
The biggest advance was time to load app - especially firefox / amarok / openoffice...

some stuff does move faster in arch64 & some a little slower
if youre waiting for flashplugin for 64bit youll be waiting a long time
but you can use nspluginwrapper see here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64
what other apps you looking for there maybe some equivilent or workaround

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