Placebo ? Tried x86_64 arch and it seems to be faster than i686

cpu · 2007-06-09 00:01:34

I don't know if it was placebo effect but when I've tried yesterday arch64 with exactly same packages installed and kernel too (modules and daemons same too) I've had a feeling that all programs loads faster. Today when I switched back to i686 on this machine (C2D T5600 2GB RAM nvidia 7600GO) I'm in pain that everything is so sloooowwww. I think it's a placebo effect but I'm sure - when flash and all a few apps will be ported to x86_64 I'll switch.

What do you think ? Is it possible to see the difference ?
The biggest advance was time to load app - especially firefox / amarok / openoffice...

rayjgu3 · 2007-06-09 00:49:00

some stuff does move faster in arch64 & some a little slower

if youre waiting for flashplugin for 64bit youll be waiting a long time
but you can use nspluginwrapper see here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64

what other apps you looking for there maybe some equivilent or workaround

ezzetabi · 2007-06-19 09:15:12

For my personal experience ('ATI + x86_64 curse' a part) passing to the 64 bits gives only advantages. My system is actually faster and maybe even a little more stable.
About the few applications who are not ported yet I had no problems thanks the well done lib32 packages you can find/make.

Stalwart · 2007-06-21 14:04:50

AMD64/EM64T cpus have bigger registers and properly written and built software will run faster because it will spend less time wanking data from memory to registers and back. When you run 32bit software these registers get blocked and cpu emulates i686

Arch Linux

#1 2007-06-09 00:01:34

Placebo ? Tried x86_64 arch and it seems to be faster than i686

#2 2007-06-09 00:49:00

Re: Placebo ? Tried x86_64 arch and it seems to be faster than i686

#3 2007-06-19 09:15:12

Re: Placebo ? Tried x86_64 arch and it seems to be faster than i686

#4 2007-06-21 14:04:50

Re: Placebo ? Tried x86_64 arch and it seems to be faster than i686

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