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Subject: Re: what to do? amd64 - i386
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On Sunday 31 July 2005 18:12, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> I know the OS itself will be faster, but how about
> ports.

The benchmarks I've seen have been a mixed bag. There's one in the AMD64 list 
where a webserver ran twice as fast on i384 than on amd64.