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Subject: Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?
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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