[rfc] improving 32bit user performance/experience...

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

2009/5/19 Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de>:
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> Am 19.05.2009 um 01:24 schrieb Daniel J Blueman:
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>> A number of benchmarks show a significant performance loss on 32bit
>> ubuntu over 64bit [...]
>> Just how much user experience do we trade away for i386/i486 legacy
>> compatibility these days?
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> IMHO, you draw an odd conclusion here. You recognize AMD64 to be
> faster than i386 and take this argument to turn away some of the i386
> users? If you are so keen on performance, by all means, install AMD64.
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> Markus
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Even though I'm performance freak I will be staying on my 32bit
dual-core laptop for quite a while still.

(I have access to Sparc 64bit grid ;-) to run my simulations on)

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With best regards


Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич