From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 3 08:33:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2823316A403 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:33:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B80043D55 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:33:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c58-107-94-118.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [58.107.94.118]) by mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kA38XVNf010903 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:33:31 +1100 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA38XVv9001391; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:33:31 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id kA38XVfV001390; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:33:31 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:33:31 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: David Marshall Message-ID: <20061103083331.GA854@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <45475298.5090709@inoc.net> <53f158630611021112n2307fdael4ff860cee6e1ac58@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5vNYLRcllDrimb99" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53f158630611021112n2307fdael4ff860cee6e1ac58@mail.gmail.com> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:33:34 -0000 --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Peter Jeremy --5vNYLRcllDrimb99 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFSv7b/opHv/APuIcRAhg5AJ4/u2hZg/JDHrz7d1lscj0Xdm6RaACdHkH5 5QDo8lO8/ULC/L+1RpV4e7w= =/w0E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5vNYLRcllDrimb99--