On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:59:18 -0800, dcarmich wrote:
> I've been using Slackware for a long time and I'm wondering what your
> experiences have been with Slackware 10.x on AMD64. Do you still see a
> performance increase (the last Slackware system I used was a PIII
> laptop) even though the entire distribution isn't 64-bit?

In the 32-bit world I got much more performance increasement by using a
SATA disk, and adding RAM. AMD64 can be a lot faster for certain
applications, but when an algorithm only does 32-bit math, there won't be
much of a speed increase. But software will probably be optimized more for
64-bit architectures in the future, so, it is not a bad investment. BTW,
there is an unofficial AMD64 port of Slackware Linux called SLAMD64 made
by Fred Emmott:

ftp://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/slamd64/

> Any 'gotchas' installing 10.x Slackware on AMD64?

I didn't encounter any problems.

-- Daniel