Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:04:24 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Derrick Edwards <dantavious@comcast.net> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64bit FreeBSD performance Message-ID: <20051130020424.GA62452@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200511292057.13225.dantavious@comcast.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:57:12PM -0500, Derrick Edwards wrote: > All, > I purchased a amd anthlon 64 3700 (754) to be used with VMWARE 5.5. FreeBSD > was going to be the guest OS. It seems that VMWARE only works with amd 64 bit > (939). I was wondering if the performance gain of FreeBSD 64 bit really be > significant compared to 32bit FreeBSD. Entirely depends on your application. > I was also wondering if all the ports > for FreeBSD 64 running as 64 bit applications. Except for ports of precompiled i386 binary applications, they are all natively compiled (i.e. "64-bit"). Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDjQioWry0BWjoQKURAs60AJ9a4BsanH0JwB9bOJpGAONG5pWmlgCfb9D2 UgzwNVv8chUW8DZXYGo/XzM= =+mbh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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