On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 10:10, Phil Meyer wrote: > > > > What balderdash. Prove it or shut up. Show that 64 bit performance of the > > Intel Core 2 Duo is half that of 32 bit performance or stop spreading FUD. > > > You will please notice, Mr. Troll, that the original question was about > Core 2 Duo. > My 'claims' are: > There are no benefits to running intel CPUs (other than Itanium) in > 64bit mode. (other than extreme memory requirements which do not impact > today's laptops) > There are definite benefits to running AMD 64bit CPUs in 64bit mode. Can you describe what the ia32 kernel does and why it is faster than x86 in some benchmarks? > Again, just for the fun of it, lets ask Dell, the largest purveyor of > intel based platforms if it sells a Core 2 Duo laptop with Windows XP > Professional x64 Edition. > I come up with a blank. How about you? I'd expect windows to be different. Intel seems to be saying the enabling EMT64 increases performance for linux here: http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/182333.htm -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
