Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:23:19 +0200 From: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Actual benefits of amd64 over i386 Message-ID: <20050513042319.GB2442@laverenz.de> In-Reply-To: <BEA97082.3CD55%michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com> References: <BEA97082.3CD55%michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com>
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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:43:46PM +0100, Michael Hopkins wrote: > 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 I switched back from amd64 to i386 and made a simple test with "time portsdb -Uu". Result: FreeBSD-i386 runs faster on the same machine so I don't think there are any drawbacks compared to amd64. cu, Uwe
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