Re: Differences between amd64 and i386.

Jose,

Debian amd64 has a processing speed advantage in being 
able to use more registers, reducing the amount of data 
that has to be shuffled between registers and cache during 
execution.  There are other architectural advantages, too. 
Obviously, the OS takes pretty full advantage of this 
internally.  However, a lot of the 64-bit stuff is used 
only by programs that are written for a 64-bit platform, 
afaik.

Don

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Instruisto Jose wrote:
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:50:08 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Instruisto Jose <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Differences between amd64 and i386.
> Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:50:45 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: [email protected]
> 
> Dear Friends,
>
> What are the main advantages of debian amd64 compared to i386 debian besides to address more than 4GB of memory?
>
> The standard Debian 6.0 kernel image of i386 has already been compiled with SMP-alternatives support.
>
> Are there differences in processing speed between them?
>
> Thanks,
> Jose
>
>