Re: [Nolug] Why AMD64?

From: Manuel Lora <vanguardist_at_cox.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:48:47 -0500
Message-Id: <1112633327.3601.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Don't forget that ISA doubles the number of available registers, vastly
improving the register scheduling in compilers.

ml

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 11:39 -0500, Brad Bendily wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
>
> > Is this using the AMD64 as the client or server? I honestly don't see
> > any benefit that 64 bit would add to serving files, especially since the
> > bottleneck would defitely be the speed of the network.
>
> I would think a serious bottleneck would be hard drive speed.
> Unless you have a large SAN.
>
> BB
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