Am 19.05.2009 um 01:24 schrieb Daniel J Blueman:
A number of benchmarks show a significant performance loss on 32bit
ubuntu over 64bit [...]
Just how much user experience do we trade away for i386/i486 legacy
compatibility these days?
IMHO, you draw an odd conclusion here. You recognize
2009/5/19 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de:
Am 19.05.2009 um 01:24 schrieb Daniel J Blueman:
A number of benchmarks show a significant performance loss on 32bit
ubuntu over 64bit [...]
Just how much user experience do we trade away for i386/i486 legacy
compatibility these days?
IMHO, you
2009/5/19 Alexandre Strube su...@surak.eti.br:
Even though I'm performance freak I will be staying on my 32bit
dual-core laptop for quite a while still.
(I have access to Sparc 64bit grid ;-) to run my simulations on)
Hello Dima,
I guess the issue here was deprecating the -386 in favor of
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:21 AM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Daniel J Blueman
daniel.blue...@gmail.com wrote:
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Even if we split up Ubuntu in i486 and i686, i686 gets its most major
gains from the CMOV instruction family-- a conditional MOV
Daniel J Blueman wrote:
All older VIA processors, AMD Geode procs and so on support the full
i586 instruction set, which including MMX instructions and registers,
which itself can provide a good win.
Geodes have partial implementation, particularly they only handle a few
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I challenge anyone to find someone using Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 on a
processor which doesn't support the full i586 instruction set (eg
i386/i486 or something with incomplete i586 support).
i586 binaries should be only installed on actual Pentium computers.
Every other
Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
I have no idea how Christopher sent his message, but KMail claims
there's nothing to quote O_o
:-D I did not hit reply all and then sent it to sounder by mistake. Then
I forwarded that back here. My apologies.
Anyway...
He said, i586 binaries should be only
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 9:35:28 pm Christopher Chan wrote:
Pentium the Original. Pentium II, III are all based on the Pentium Pro
(i686) and they have a different architecture than Pentium the Original.
Pentium II is basically the Pentium Pro + MMX. Pentium 4 and M use the
Netburst
Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 9:35:28 pm Christopher Chan wrote:
Pentium the Original. Pentium II, III are all based on the Pentium Pro
(i686) and they have a different architecture than Pentium the Original.
Pentium II is basically the Pentium Pro + MMX. Pentium 4 and M
