On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:32 +0100, Oliver Korpilla wrote: > Lennart Sorensen schrieb: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:53:16PM +0100, Oliver.Korpilla@gmx.de wrote: > > > >>That's the strange thing - my AMD64 3500+ in 64-bit mode, with 2 GB of > >>memory and a 250 Gb drive, takes about 30min. But this system _should_ > >>have more oomph, not less! > > > > > > Well the Athlon 2800+ is 2087Mhz so at least for raw clock speed it is > > not much slower than your cpu. Given it is doing 64bit for every > > pointer instead of 32bit you will have a bit bigger code, and hence a > > bit more disk access time needed. I may also be wrong on 20 minutes. > > It might be closer to 30, but I haven't timed it in a while. Given gcc > > almost certainly does nothing to take advantage of the athlon64 > > instruction set, I wouldn't be surprised if the 3500+ A64 is not really > > much faster than an Athlon 2800+ at compiling. > > Yeah, but slower?? gcc 3.x is known to be slow, and I think I remember reading that it's even slower on AMD64. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war." Henry Van Dyke
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