That's a slippery slope you're turning to :)
Which is better, Windows or Linux?
I'm not driving that way.
Cheers,
Mircea.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Thain" <toby_at_telegraphics.com.au>
To: "Mircea Zahan" <mzahan_at_adaptive.ro>
Cc: "David Weintraub" <qazwart_at_gmail.com>; <users_at_subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: x86 is stone age, how about moving along ?
>
> On 30-Nov-08, at 5:37 PM, Mircea Zahan wrote:
>
>> My desire for x64 SVN comes from the fact that I want to
>> have a pure x64 environment. That wish in turn comes from
>> reading that at kernel level, switches to and from x32 are
>> very costly in terms of processor cycles. While running x32
>> apps on x64 OS is supported, is not efficient.
>>
>> You might say that the performance drawback is minor,
>> but I'm dealing with a multipurpose machine, with six different
>> servers running on it, so I want to squeze every drop
>> of computing power out of it.
>
> First ditch Windows then.
>
> --Toby
>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mircea.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Weintraub"
>> <qazwart_at_gmail.com>
>> To: "Mircea Zahan" <mzahan_at_adaptive.ro>
>> Cc: <users_at_subversion.tigris.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 12:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: x86 is stone age, how about moving along ?
>>
>>
>>> Will 64 bit binaries really make Subversion that much faster?
>>> From my observations, the bottleneck is the network and not the
>>> program
>>> itself. Subversion doesn't need a whole lot of horsepower to work.
>>> It's one
>>> of the nice things about it. Especially coming out of the
>>> ClearCase world
>>> where it is absolutely impossible to over estimate your hardware
>>> and network
>>> needs.
>>> Are you noticing performance issues with Subversion, or do you
>>> simply want
>>> to take advantage of your 64bit hardware?
>>> --
>>> David Weintraub
>>> qazwart_at_gmail.com
>>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Mircea Zahan <mzahan_at_adaptive.ro>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any chance for you to publish x64 version of
>>>> Subversion's binaries
>>>> for Windows?
>>>> Please don't reply with something like "get the sources and
>>>> compile it",
>>>> not everyone is proficient
>>>> with C programming/compiling.
>>>>
>>>> I know the existing binaries do work on x64, but I want to have a
>>>> pure x64
>>>> environment.
>>>> At this very moment the SVN server is the only x86 application
>>>> running on
>>>> our server.
>>>>
>>>> Every major server of any kind already has x64 binaries, yours
>>>> doesn't.
>>>> It's dissapointing for
>>>> such a marvelous piece of software.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Mircea.
>>>>
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