[wellylug] how slow

andrej at paradise.net.nz andrej at paradise.net.nz
Wed Mar 16 13:52:48 NZDT 2005


Quoting "E.Chalaron" <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz>:

> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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> 
Post the WHOLE discussion, then ;)




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