John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 14 April 2005 03:02 am, James Knott wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
And now I get to do more shopping, this time for new hardware. I'm going to install 9.3 onto a new disk. I'm thinking of getting my first SATA drive (I've been a SCSI guy. I like the 10,000 RPM, Ultra160 drives--they're fast!).
Don't forget a 64 bit CPU!
Why? Are they any faster? (given the same clock)...
I remember well the move from 16 bit software to 32 bit software was in many situations a big let down, because it was no faster, and often slower, since every memory fetch had to be 32bits whether you needed it or not, as did each instruction.
Certainly, because you were still running 16-bit apps. Last night I built MPlayer on this XP3000+ 32-bit/512M box, then on the XP3000+/512M 64-bit laptop running at a much slower clock frequency, the 64-bit laptop build was a darn site quicker as are my kernel builds. When Sun went 64-bit SPARC, everyone saw the speed difference. 64-bit wasn't designed just to show that the designers were clever, it was about speed and performance. When we can deliver a completely 64-bit distro, see and feel the big difference. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks