Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 20:43:46 +0100 From: Michael Hopkins <michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com> To: "freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Actual benefits of amd64 over i386 Message-ID: <BEA97082.3CD55%michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com>
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Hi all
I have been suffering quite a bit of frustration recently with many ports
that I need being 'i386 only' and no straightforward fixes. Maybe amd64
could be described as 'tier 1.5' ;o)
Can I ask for honest opinions here on what speed (or other?) benefits I
should get by running amd64 over i386? I will never be using more than
about 1 G of memory on this particular machine so memory limit is not an
issue. Maybe I should just rebuild the machine as i386?
It's an Athlon64 3400+ on a Gigabyte motherboard - used mainly for
cross-compiling to Linux and mingw32, NFS file sharing, some X11 over the
network with my local Mac OS X machine as X server and using my own C/C++
maths code (which must run as fast as possible).
TIA
Michael
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