Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:35:34 +0000 From: "Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@googlemail.com> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use? Message-ID: <1afdeaec0803052335v1c46ba2dof594c3a213c8913b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080306004221.14aa242c@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <200803050036.33579.itz@mushinsky.net> <20080305171303.GA35180@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <bbe9e35d0803050935w3476aeabl4bef4b8912f0f814@mail.gmail.com> <20080305194611.A8684@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080306004221.14aa242c@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On 06/03/2008, RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: > > Everything I've every seen about this suggests that amd64 is faster on > a few applications, such as mp3 encoding, but generally there is very > little difference, on average, across desktop applications. Do you have > any measurements to support that 20% figure. I do on Linux (if that is relevant - I'm not clear if the question is FreeBSD specific or not): See http://colina.demon.co.uk/?q=node/53
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