amd64 6% slower than i386?

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 29 October 2005 04:34 pm, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 04:28:21PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 04:22:10PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > Build world is consistly 6% slower running an amd64 world than an
> > > i386 world.
> > >
> > > In both cases, I'm using the default install of 6.0 RC-1 on the same
> > > AMD 64 3000+ with 1GB of RAM.  I'm finding that build world takes 48
> > > minutes under i386 and 51 minutes under amd64.
> > >
> > > Is this expected?
> >
> > You're comparing two different things (different compilers, some
> > amount of different code being compiled), so you shouldn't expect them
> > to be the same.
>
> He also may be building lib32 on amd64.

Yep, that is on by default.

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