Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:33:31 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: David Marshall <dmarshall@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64 Message-ID: <20061103083331.GA854@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <53f158630611021112n2307fdael4ff860cee6e1ac58@mail.gmail.com> References: <45475298.5090709@inoc.net> <53f158630611021112n2307fdael4ff860cee6e1ac58@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2006-Nov-02 11:12:43 -0800, David Marshall wrote: >has 6.1/i386. The i386 has a better ubench score. This is not necessarily relevant to real-world performance. Both architectures have their strengths and weaknesses and you really need to make a decision based on how your own application performs. > More importantly >for us, it's impossible to build a 32-bit perl on the amd64, and we >don't need a 64-bit perl. Our apache/mod_perl servers are 3X bigger >on the amd64, and that is unsatisfactory. In most cases, an amd64 executable will be larger than an i386 executable. I'm surprised that you've found such a big difference. -- Peter Jeremy [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFSv7b/opHv/APuIcRAhg5AJ4/u2hZg/JDHrz7d1lscj0Xdm6RaACdHkH5 5QDo8lO8/ULC/L+1RpV4e7w= =/w0E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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