Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64
On Mon 24 Jan 2022 at 20:30:20 (-0500), a wrote:
> i've installed debian 11 for both arch on same PC, amd64 seems faster
>
> is there some tool to demonstrate performance of PC?
>
> they say it's not possible to say which is faster without defining
> computing task
>
> is performance difference significant if computing task is web
> browsing (www.debian.org)
>
> debian-11.2.0-i386-netinst.iso is 470M while
> debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso is 378M
> <http://ftp.sunet.se/debian-cd/11.2.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-11.2.0-i386-netinst.iso>
>
> no wonder amd64 is more efficient
What exactly are you comparing here? Generally speaking, the amd64
packages are /larger/ than the i386 ones: hardly surprising.
But the i386 ISOs have /two/ versions of many packages, the PAE
ones and the non-PAE ones.
Cheers,
David.
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