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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> So, to check how this hardware platform works in a 32-bit mode I |
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>guess I need to do a complete second install on a separate part of the |
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>hard drive as an Athlon. That's a big job that I'm not anxious to do. |
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>Cheers, |
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>Mark |
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If you're just trying to compare the performance of your software |
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between 32-bit and 64-bit kernels, you might try a distro that installs |
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more quickly. If I recall, you can install a complete 32-bit Debian |
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system in about half an hour using a Knoppix CD. Google `knoppix |
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"install to hard disk"` for the howto. I believe you can also get a |
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64-bit Debian system just as quickly for comparison by following the |
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same procedure but using a Kanotix-64 CD instead. (You might just |
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compare against your existing 64-bit Gentoo system instead, but I don't |
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know how fair a fight would be between a hand-tuned Gentoo system and |
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one running a binary distro.) |
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The only hitch I can think of is that some of your applications might |
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not be available as Debian binaries in both 32 and 64-bit versions. |
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Also, naturally, you won't have the ability to test your software with |
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the optimizations afforded by the USE flags you intend to use back here |
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in Gentoo-land. If you would be building your software from source |
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anyway, then this would not be an issue. |
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That being said, I think this experiment would actually be pretty |
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academic for most users. Unless your software is, say, a very CPU |
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intensive scientific or multimedia application that was expertly ported |
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to 64-bit, it is my understanding that you're probably not going to see |
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a performance difference worth writing home about. I would encourage |
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anyone to comment if they know better as I would be delighted to learn |
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it was otherwise. |
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- Matt |
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