[wellylug] how slow

[Peter Jones]

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> From: E.Chalaron [mailto:e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2005 1:46 p.m.
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Subject: [wellylug] how slow
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> How about that ?
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> 64bit is generally slower than 32bit. The only benefit of 64bit is 
> non-segmented addressing of several gigabytes of data. If you don't 
> need that then 64 bit adressing is just overhead.
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> It's an urban myth that 64bit is faster than 32bit, like 
> people assume 
> a 2GHz computer is twice as fast as a 1GHz computer.
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> That is also why Apple have been reluctant to make a 64 bit Mac OS X, 
> since the people who actually need it already buy AIX instead. Ditto 
> for Windows.
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Is that a bit like the old days of Pentium Pros being slower than the plain
vanilla Pentiums of equivalent Mhz except where the code was optimiized (for
the Pro)
(These dating from the days when 180 -200 Mhz was considered "fast") 
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