[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm glad, because I've ordered an Athlon64 3000+ Venice core processor
(chickened out on spending $500+ on a San Diego 4000+ or X2 3700+).
It would be nice if my compiles were as fast or faster than my Celeron
D 336 2.8GHz and my Pentium 4 3GHz with 1MB L2 cache.
I found that compiling the amd64 kernel on an AMD 2.4GHz machine (Athlon
64 3000+, I think) was almost exactly twice as fast as compiling i386 on
a P4 2.4GHz. I realize it's not a 100% fair benchmark, since I think
amd64 has fewer drivers to compile, and in my case the Intel had a lot
more memory and faster SCSI disks.
Still, twice as fast is twice as fast...
