[Gllug] Kernel compile taking forever...!

Jack Bertram jack at jbertram.net
Wed Feb 2 10:39:17 UTC 2005


* Andrew Halliwell <ah at gnd.com> [050202 10:33]:
> Opteron's a different kettle of fish though.
> Any penalty you get from increased load times should be more than negated by
> the fact you've to a boatload of new registers, which of course, should
> reduce memory requests and thus, increase speed.

Have people experienced a noticeable speed increase in desktop use going
from 32- to 64-bit kernel on the same Opteron machine?

j
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