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.
