Well Mike, It's not about startup time, it's about running time, sometimes the systems freezes a little bit, just like asking for more CPU or RAM.
My Box = AMD64 3200,1Gb RAM,Nvidia Gforce5500FX,2xHD80gb,Mobo Asus K8V Deluxe,Gentoo64 My Old Box= Pentium3 1Ghz,512MbRAM,Nvidia Gforce2,2xHD80gb,Mobo Asus,Gentoo32 I'm a Java developer, I bought this processor for the same reason you'd buy a new processor = get a faster machine. On 4/27/06, Mike Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 64-bit code has larger binaries. > Startup times are never a good test, and I hope you didn't buy a processor for > this reason. > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list