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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: How much better are 64 but platforms
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:25:56PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:

> I've got
> a client asking me, "How much faster would this run if we put it on an=20
> Itanium."

I'd recommend amd64 over itanic..the latter is a vastly complicated
processor to support, and gcc apparently does not produce very good
code for it.

Kris

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