From 74e553c57191d9f0655d5e21d94856d37be391db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathis Rosenhauer <rosenhauer@dkrz.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 15:28:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Mention preferred platform is 64bit

---
 INSTALL | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 1999a7a..349b7df 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ location:
 Installation
 ============
 
+## 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.
+
 ## Installation from source code release with configure
 
 The most common installation procedure on Unix-like systems looks as
-- 
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