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Date:      Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:47:36 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: amd64 6% slower than i386?
Message-ID:  <200510311547.38014.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051029203436.GA12221@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <4363A1B2.30603.18FC1576@localhost> <20051029202821.GA50470@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051029203436.GA12221@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Saturday 29 October 2005 04:34 pm, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 04:28:21PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 04:22:10PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > Build world is consistly 6% slower running an amd64 world than an
> > > i386 world.
> > >
> > > In both cases, I'm using the default install of 6.0 RC-1 on the same
> > > AMD 64 3000+ with 1GB of RAM.  I'm finding that build world takes 48
> > > minutes under i386 and 51 minutes under amd64.
> > >
> > > Is this expected?
> >
> > You're comparing two different things (different compilers, some
> > amount of different code being compiled), so you shouldn't expect them
> > to be the same.
>
> He also may be building lib32 on amd64.

Yep, that is on by default.

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