Re: [arch-general] arch x86_64 and i686 performance comparison

Excerpts from Sven-Hendrik Haase's message of Wednesday 11-Nov-09 05:18pm MST:

If you want to make a serious comparison, set up two fresh chroots at least. Better yet, set up two partitions and do the tests using a native kernel as well. I will do that. But the strange think is that I cannot find good reports on such comparisons.

You will probably see the opposite of what you saw in the VMs. Especially for video encoding, x86_64 will be noticeably faster. I have done the testing on real hardware (Athlon 64) 4-5 years ago, and the result was the same as today with VM.

Thanks, Sergey