How much better are 64 but platforms

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Oct 29 16:13:11 PST 2003


On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:25:56PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:

> I've got
> a client asking me, "How much faster would this run if we put it on an 
> Itanium."

I'd recommend amd64 over itanic..the latter is a vastly complicated
processor to support, and gcc apparently does not produce very good
code for it.

Kris
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