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

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:04:43 -0500
Joey Hess <joeyh@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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