Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-10 Thread Andy MacKay
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:50:59PM +0100, Hamish Marson wrote: > Ah right. Light dawneth. Yes, you make excellent sense. Basically ia32 > is so hacked about & wacky (In order to be backwardly compatible) as to > be very slow, yet ia64 is a new instruction set with none of the baggage > that it h

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-10 Thread Andy MacKay
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:43:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:39:25PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > > Le Thu, Apr 10, 2003, ? 10:40:47AM +0100, Hamish Marson a ?crit: > > > I'm not sure how your logic works out that a 64 bit reg is going to > > > be faster than a 32b