How much better are 64 but platforms

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:21:01PM +0000, William Palfreman wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > > I was wondering how advanced the plans are to bring native AMD64 into
> > > FreeBSD?  Will it get into 5.x, or will be have to wait for 6-CURRENT?
> >
> > FreeBSD 5.x has supported amd64 for months.
> 
> The release notes don't list it (ia64 they do), but AMD64 is listed in
> the Tier 2 architectures along with PowerPC and ia64 (again).  I suppose
> I was wondering if AMD64 was going to be a Tier 1 release during the
> 5-STABLE period?  It's just it looks like there are going to be a
> flood of these machines about quite soon :-)

Probably.  There's a lot of developer attention focused on the amd64
port (Peter Wemm uses it as his primary desktop, etc).  It's already
much more stable under load than FreeBSD/ia64, which has severe
stability problems right now.

Kris
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