On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 19:07, Stephen Waters wrote: > Sure, the 32-bit + SSE version may be faster than the 64-bit + SSE > version... but if Debian i386 has only the 386^H^H486 version (no SIMD > optimizations, etc.), then the AMD64 version is gonna win on all but > cache-intensive, non-FPU-bound apps. Admittedly, this probably includes > a good many Unix system utilities, but since I'm an amd64 desktop user, > I'm highly interested FPU optimization. Er, sorry to reply to myself. I just wondered if this would be a good test of the cache-intensive, non-FPU case: tar'ing a large tmpfs /tmp mount with disk swapping turned off? ??? -s
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