On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:11 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 13:31 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > and 64bit P4/Xeon will suck badly in 64bit mode. > > > > Worse than in 32 bit mode? Interesting. Do you have any figures to back > > that up? > > > > Thanks, > > > > James. > > The P4/Netburst family is not known for being a very efficient core to > begin with - adding the EM64T (or as I like to call it, iAMD64) hack to > the Prescott (PresHot) and the Nocona cores didn't really improve things > either. > > I assume that finding benchmarks on the Internet about P4 vs AMD64 in > 64bit shouldn't be too hard to find. > Either way, I tested my own software on a number of cores ranging from > Opterons, P4 Xeons, Woodcrest Xeons (Core2), and the only CPU to show a > massive performance drop was the P4. > > Never the less, as I said, YMMV. > > - Gilboa FYI, the latest mplayer cvs should include experimental support for newer WMPs. Hopefully, hopefully reversed engineered codecs coupled with gnash (open source flash player/plug-in), will reduce the need for 32bit applications. - Gilboa
