Mention preferred platform is 64bit

74e553c5 · Mathis Rosenhauer · 56057992 · 74e553c5
Commit 74e553c5 authored Dec 07, 2016 by Mathis Rosenhauer
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 Installation
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+## General considerations
+
+Libaec achieves the best performance on 64 bit systems. The library
+will work correctly on 32 bit systems but encoding and decoding
+performance will be much lower.
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 ## Installation from source code release with configure

 The most common installation procedure on Unix-like systems looks as