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Re: Wich Debian system with Intel Core 2 CPU: i386 or amd64?



Micha wrote:
> unless you are doing memory intensive calculations or have a lot of memory (I
> would say that probably 3+ GB although some say more), you're probably better
> of with the i386 distribution.

The i386 architecture is famously scarce of general-purpose registers.
This, combined with amd64 binaries being compiled optimised for a modern
cpu instead of a 486 (i386 doesn't actually run on 386's anymore), are
good reasons to expect better performance from amd64.

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