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[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:09:57AM -0500, mike-DlQxw/23Tq2aMJb+Lgu22Q at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Not exactly.  There is a push to go forward with x86-64 hardware, which
> doens't neccesarily disqualify intel now that they've co-opted amd's
> instruction set.

Instruction set yes, performance no.  Throwing an instruction set for
64bit onto a 32bit chip design doesn't make a 64bit chip.  So far the
amd64 debian port has found the amd speeds up in 64 bit mode on average,
while the intel em64t chips slow down.

> That said, expect more of both amd and intel based hardware in the future.

I guess it customers ask for them, they will make them.

Lennart Sorensen
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