How much better are 64 but platforms

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:25:29PM +0000, William Palfreman wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > I'd recommend amd64 over itanic..the latter is a vastly complicated
> > processor to support, and gcc apparently does not produce very good
> > code for it.
> 
> I was wondering how advanced the plans are to bring native AMD64 into
> FreeBSD?  Will it get into 5.x, or will be have to wait for 6-CURRENT?
> I was thinking of buying one of these machines in the spring you see :-)

FreeBSD 5.x has supported amd64 for months.

Kris
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