[wellylug] how slow

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 16/03/2005, at 2:16 PM, E.Chalaron wrote:

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>> http://www.mail-archive.com/mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net/ 
>> msg05364.html
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>> Post the WHOLE discussion, then ;)
>
> I do not think I take it out of context ...
> My point is : how worth is a 64 bits ?
> Since not everybody is on the mjpeg list, it has been said that some  
> big
> movie companies are using clusters of 2.8 Ghz. Why not clusters of 64  
> bits ?
> thanks

The question is, what are you doing? Anything that involves shifting a  
lot of large numbers or large chunks of memory around will benefit.  
Most 'home-use' apps - web, email, word processing, spreadsheet work -  
will have no benefit, and possibly a slow down as more memory has to be  
moved around to get the computation done. If you do video/audio/3d work  
that requires a lot of memory and/or large number computations you'll  
see a boost if you use 64bit optimised applications.
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Phillip Hutchings
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