On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:04:43 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > If you look at the benchmarks you will see that performance gain is marginal and sometimes there is even a performance loss. Did some research before deciding. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
