Re: [9fans] Current status of amd64 port?

[Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com>]

On Nov 15, 2007, at 18:39, erik quanstrom wrote:

> it's kind of silly to run 64-bit linux on a machine with <= 4GB of  
> memory.

unless, as you said, you need the registers (eh) or the direct vlong  
(nice for some things).

my new cpu server has 4GB today. i was shocked at how cheap it was.  
if the software can make use of it, upgrades beyond that are  
certainly not out of the question. it'd be nice to not have to worry  
about upas/fs eating all my ram. ;-)

also, i think there is benefit to early support for the "up and  
coming" platform. it's clearly the direction things are headed  
(although Windows has slowed that down some).

For those who've run it, do we have performance numbers for 8c vs 6c  
in various instances?
Anthony