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Mark Knecht wrote:
| On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Dan Farrell <dan@(protected):
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| It's an interesting question and one I've not tried to test. Does an
| AMD64 machine running a 32-bit or 64-bit install run faster or slower
| with one or the other. For all of my everyday work - Gnome, Firefox,
| web browsing, email, MythTV, etc., it's been my assumption that there
| wouldn't be any noticeble difference. I run 64-bit but assume I'd run
| at more or less the same speed if I ran 32-bit. I may be wrong. Anyone
| have any measured data? Same machine, two installs?

I have a few numbers from genlop -t

*32-bit*

~ * www-client/mozilla-firefox
~   Sat Dec 29 00:35:39 2007 >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11
~     merge time: 11 minutes and 30 seconds.

~   Sat Feb 9 12:43:52 2008 >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.12
~     merge time: 10 minutes and 44 seconds.

~ * mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird
~   Sat Aug 4 13:25:28 2007 >>> mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.6
~     merge time: 18 minutes and 49 seconds.

~   Fri Nov 23 12:57:01 2007 >>> mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.9
~     merge time: 10 minutes and 37 seconds.

~ * kde-base/kdelibs
~   Sat Dec 29 09:31:18 2007 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.7-r3
~     merge time: 18 minutes and 56 seconds.

~   Sat Dec 29 11:07:40 2007 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.7-r3
~     merge time: 19 minutes and 37 seconds.

~   Wed Jan 30 20:38:52 2008 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r3
~     merge time: 18 minutes and 19 seconds.

~   Tue Feb 26 20:16:28 2008 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r3
~     merge time: 21 minutes and 38 seconds.

* app-office/openoffice
~ Fri Nov 23 19:14:12 2007 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.3.0
~     merge time: 1 hour and 48 seconds.

~   Sat Dec 29 01:35:35 2007 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.3.1
~     merge time: 59 minutes and 56 seconds.

~   Tue Feb 5 11:51:26 2008 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1
~     merge time: 1 hour, 4 minutes and 28 seconds.


*64-bit*

* www-client/mozilla-firefox
~   Tue Jan 1 14:14:50 2008 >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11
~     merge time: 8 minutes and 43 seconds.

~   Wed Feb 20 21:39:03 2008 >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.12
~     merge time: 8 minutes and 39 seconds.

* mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird
~   Tue Jan 1 14:25:01 2008 >>> mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.9
~     merge time: 9 minutes and 9 seconds.

~   Sun Mar 9 01:22:43 2008 >>> mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-2.0.0.12
~     merge time: 8 minutes and 2 seconds.

* kde-base/kdelibs
~   Tue Jan 1 11:04:37 2008 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.7-r3
~     merge time: 16 minutes and 47 seconds.

~   Wed Feb 20 22:01:22 2008 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r3
~     merge time: 18 minutes and 12 seconds.

* app-office/openoffice
~   Fri Mar 14 21:23:57 2008 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.3.1-r1
~     merge time: 48 minutes and 45 seconds.

These times are from the same machine:
abit ip35 pro, c2quad q6600 (2.4ghz), 4gb ram, (320+320) sataII raid0 (155-MB/s)

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