From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <03FBEF09-261E-444D-8990-7536F727E21D@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Anthony Sorace Subject: Re: [9fans] Current status of amd64 port? Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:18:10 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: fc0f47ea-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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