On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:35:34 +0000 "Colin Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 06/03/2008, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Everything I've every seen about this suggests that amd64 is > > faster on a few applications, such as mp3 encoding, but generally > > there is very little difference, on average, across desktop > > applications. Do you have any measurements to support that 20% > > figure. > > I do on Linux (if that is relevant - I'm not clear if the question is > FreeBSD specific or not): > > See http://colina.demon.co.uk/?q=node/53 but your binary also grows to 5 times the size of the 32-bit version, it doesn't seem, in any sense, to be a typical desktop application. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"