Alan Cox wrote: > I'm not aware of anyone having sat down and run formal benchmarks on the > Fedora desktop. One of the problems with that is that you need a > reproducable representative benchmark typically scripting all the mouse > clicks and keypresses, using identical data sets and so on. They are hard > to produce and I'm not aware of any Linux ones that don't involve payment > of large sums of money to third party who runs their own closed secret > test and produces a number you can stick up in lights. So let me turn the > question around - given that the evidence from microbenchmarks and CPU > architects is that 64bit is the better choice can you show any > good quality benchmarks showing it isn't a win ? I agree getting formal, almost perfectly fair benchmarks is infeasible. But I haven't seen any informal benchmarks that come close to showing a significant performance gain. I've already pointed to such an informal benchmark showing negligible difference. > However if you cared about performance you wouldn't be running Gnome or > Kde ;) I don't particularly care about small differences in performance, and I do like running a highly featured desktop. But the real question is whether any performance advantage of desktop 64-bit for < 4 GB is worth the hassle. As to that, I'm still very unconvinced. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
