On Sep 10, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Joseph Dixon <s...@dixondata.com> wrote:

> Some operations that would have taken 2 cycles may now be done in one.

Some. Probably not many.

> Surely that leads to a performance boost, right?

Maybe, maybe not. The flip side is that pointers are twice as large, so half as 
many fit in cache.

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Scott Ribe
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