On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 13:45 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 22 October 2006 13:34, Peo Nilsson wrote:
en/decoding of movies and music
compiling src
Sorry, but No. Compilation is not computational intensive. Its largely see this, write that. You don't even need a floating point processor. Not even to compile floating point code.
I think we're moving into 32bit performance vs. 64bit performance while the question was Athlon64 performance vs. AthlonXP performance. I know from running 32bit SUSE 10.1 on both AthlonXP and a wide variety of Athlon64 based processors (Sempron64, Athlon64, Turion64) that the Athlon64 based chips perform better. In both compiling source and in encoding video and audio (the heaviest tasks I do on my notebook and home PC). Note, I'm not comparing 64bit linux with 32bit linux - I have 32bit on both. Hans