Re: AMD64
- From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:17:25 +0200
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:41:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Michael S <msherman77@xxxxxxxxx>:
I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or
tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with
the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port.
Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on
a 64-bit machine?
Performance is equivalent, except in a few corner cases. Keep in mind that
there are some cases where amd64 is actually slower, so it's really a wash,
unless you know you're specific application will benefit from 64 bit.
Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers,
applications that are known not to work under the
AMD64. This is going to be a desktop/workstation type
system.
Personally, I would stick with i386, unless you like to experiment. Last
time I tried to run amd64 on a desktop, I had lots of trouble with misc
problems here and there. Same machine running i386 is rock stable with
no problems. My gut tells me that a lot of desktop apps and libraries
aren't really mature from a 64-bit standpoint yet.
I've been running amd64 on my desktop since 5.3 without any real
problems. But I only picked hardware that had drivers available.
Some things to keep in mind:
1) no binary nvidia graphics driver
2) no flash plugin
3) java is cumbersome.
4) no win32 codecs for mplayer
ad 1) I've got a Radeon 9250 that's supported by the native Xorg & DRI
driver, so no problem. I don't like binary-only drivers anyway.
ad 2) So no annoying flash ads either. :-) I can live with that.
ad 3) I don't use it anyway.
ad 4) Works fine without them, AFAICT.
Stuff like emacs, firefox, gimp, sane, imagemagick, audacious and
mplayer all work fine. I haven't tried openoffice, bacause it's huge
with lots of dependencies and I prefer LaTeX anyway.
Roland
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