Micha wrote: > unless you are doing memory intensive calculations or have a lot of memory (I > would say that probably 3+ GB although some say more), you're probably better > of with the i386 distribution.
The i386 architecture is famously scarce of general-purpose registers. This, combined with amd64 binaries being compiled optimised for a modern cpu instead of a 486 (i386 doesn't actually run on 386's anymore), are good reasons to expect better performance from amd64. -- see shy jo
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