Re: Wich Debian system with Intel Core 2 CPU: i386 or amd64?
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:04:43 -0500
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
If you look at the benchmarks you will see that performance gain is marginal
and sometimes there is even a performance loss. Did some research before
deciding.
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