[Gllug] Which architecture?

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Tue May 5 10:21:43 UTC 2009


Jose Luis Martinez wrote:
>> It's not something I've benchmarked, but the 64 bit feels faster on my
>> inordinately high usage of firefox.
> I am sure *nobody* before has thought about benchmarking this :-D


Actually... I did benchmark this about a year or so back, and the i386 
Firefox was much faster at doing most things than the x86_64 one was. 
Will digup details and post them online somewhere, Although iirc the max 
tabs I tested with were in the region of 24 - 30. Definitely not 130!!

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