-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/15/07 06:03, Martin Marcher wrote: > 2007/9/15, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 09/15/07 03:57, pietia wrote: >>> hi >>> >>> Do you have any experiences in that competition: Debian amd64 vs Debian >>> i386 ? >>> >>> Is i386 still faster than amd64 ? >> Since when was i386 *ever* faster than AMD64? > > since when was 64bit *ever* faster than 32bit? (speaking of speed here > not the actual pro of having more address space)
That's not what I asked, and is not what OP asked. Anyway, the extra 8 registers that long mode offers definitely lets the compiler create more efficient code. How that contrasts against larger pointers reducing cache efficiency and bandwidth effectiveness is app specific. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG68juS9HxQb37XmcRAmjKAJwPjyDGXWOrA3zRAbErsfZREFFzTQCcCw6Z C+EqVoPrs0MnJ5K/ITvOt3I= =j4Ak -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
