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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 12:41:22PM -0400, SKU wrote:
> Second question: If you had to buy a couple of FreeBSD builder boxes for 
> building releases and testing only, which platform would you go with: Amd64 
> or the Opteron?

"AMD64" is the architecture, "Opteron" is an instance of that
architecture.  Perhaps you mean Athlon64 vs. Opteron?

I moved my FreeBSD/i386 5-CURRENT compile box from an Athlon XP-2200+ to
an Athlon64 3200+ (2.0ghz) machine and cut 14 minutes from the 'make
world' time.