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Cc: Martin Miedema <martin.miedema@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage
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> 32 vs 64 bits does not give you any raw performance boost for most apps.  The

yes it will. FreeBSD/amd64 works at least 10% faster than FreeBSD/i386 on 
athlon64 machine, when i386 version were recompiled for P4. With default 
FreeBSD/i386 - it will be at least 30%.

just because it's not just 64-bit addresses, but twice 
the registers (r8-r15) allowing C compiler to generate more efficient 
code.

For now AMD64 is the fastest and cheapest architecture - at least with AMD 
processors, not intel clones. (YES now intel makes clones of AMD 
processors)