(this thread has been split off from http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4873)
How severe is the performance penalty of running i386 binaries on amd64? I am soon going to be putting together a new box, and I assumed that I would run amd64 for the added addressing space. I had thought that the speed penalty would be overwhelmingly compensated by the increase in speed (from a seven-year-old dual Athlon to some flavor of quad core).
Is that not true? Are there other "gotchas" with amd64? I don't need Wine, but I will need VBox, Flash, Acroread, Java and the usual other stuff.
How severe is the performance penalty of running i386 binaries on amd64? I am soon going to be putting together a new box, and I assumed that I would run amd64 for the added addressing space. I had thought that the speed penalty would be overwhelmingly compensated by the increase in speed (from a seven-year-old dual Athlon to some flavor of quad core).
Is that not true? Are there other "gotchas" with amd64? I don't need Wine, but I will need VBox, Flash, Acroread, Java and the usual other stuff.