All the cool web 2.0 sites (YouTube, Digg etc) are doing it, so it is official and now applies to this website. I will not be breaking my balls trying to make this look pretty in IE6 anymore. If you noticed, my logo is a transparent PNG – it looks like ass in IE6, but too bad. Use any decent browser and it will work properly. I don’t even have a computer with IE6. If you’re still on IE6, stop using a computer because you’re a moron. Using IE6 in 2009 is like trying to calculate the 543rd digit of pi by using cucumbers.
This site endorses Firefox 3.5. Chrome is also very respectable. Anything but IE pretty much… IE is crap.
So back in 2006, I bought a 64 bit laptop and never used a 64 bit operating system. What a waste, since it never took advantage of it. I pretty much was an early adapter of consumer 64 bit processors – so early that no OSes or drivers were out yet. Today, my computer is a huge pile of crap. I was bored and testing some weird, unexplainable issues that make no sense (that’s a whole other post) and decided that I wanted to see how much better the The following benchmarks were performed using Everest which is a Windows program (I got it running in Wine on Ubuntu)
Benchmark results (higher is better, except for the latency test):
| Test Type |
Windows XP 32bit |
Ubuntu 9.04 x64 |
| Memory Read |
2291 MB/s |
6547 MB/s |
| Memory Write |
1843 MB/s |
2670 MB/s |
| Memory Copy |
2006 MB/s |
2244 MB/s |
| Memory Latency |
64.9 ns |
50.4 ns |
| CPU Queen |
3786 |
3808 |
| CPU PhotoWorxx |
2679 |
2921 |
| CPU ZLib |
12838 KB/s |
12855 KB/s |
| CPU AES |
2810 |
2836 |
As you can see, the laptop’s RAM benched significantly better on the 64 bit OS. The other tests were very similar, but were also slightly better. Everest does have a 64 bit driver, so that’s probably why.
- This is why I love FiOS
Symmetrical up and down, mother futons. Need I say more? F you, Cablevision, beat that upload! You guys are inferior!
