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"AD." <> wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:11:43 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> I've been less than impressed with my current experience of the state of
>> the AMD64 art too. Thought that might have been the particular application
>> I was using it for (MPEG encoding).
>
>So you picked an AMD chip for one of the only tasks a P4 is comparatively
>good at?
The good news is, I have put aside the x86-64 version of SuSE 9.1 and
put on the 32-bit version instead, and ffmpeg now positively flies on
the Athlon. Instead of being one-third the speed of my Shuttle, it is
now more than twice as fast.
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