Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:13:24 +0200
To: "David Boreham" <david_list@boreham.org>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Large (8M) cache vs. dual-core CPUs
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	Have a look at this Wikipedia page which outlines some differences  
between the AMD and Intel versions of 64-bit :

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T

> It isn't only Postgres. I work on a number of other server applications
> that also run much faster on Opterons than the published benchmark
> figures would suggest they should. They're all compiled with gcc4,
> so possibly there's a compiler issue. I don't run Windows on any
> of our Opteron boxes so I can't easily compare using the MS compiler.