[Xapian-discuss] Xapian on AMD64

[James Aylett]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:22:16AM -0300, Christiano Anderson wrote:

> Yes, you can run 32bit executables on AMD64. I have successfully
> compiled Xapian on AMD64 using a true 64bit gcc. I just got the Debian
> sources from http://www.xapian.org/debian/ and rebuilt the packages,
> generating xapian-xxx_0.9.2-1_amd64.deb packages. I checked the binaries
> and they're really linked against 64bit libraries.

Excellent.

> At this moment I made few tests indexing 75019 documents.

Does ``make check'' pass for xapian-core?

> I have no real numbers yet, but I could note it's quite faster to
> index comparing to a 32bit arch.

That's not a fair comparison. How does it stack up against a 32bit
Xapian on the same machine?

J

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