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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>
References:  <200511292057.13225.dantavious@comcast.net>

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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. FreeB=
SD=20
> was going to be the guest OS. It seems that VMWARE only works with amd 64=
 bit=20
> (939). I was wondering if the performance gain of FreeBSD 64 bit really b=
e=20
> significant compared to 32bit FreeBSD.

Entirely depends on your application.

> I was also wondering if all the ports=20
> 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

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