Dave Hansen wrote: > Register contents are half the size. So, integers and pointers all get > smaller. That increases cache coverage and decreases the size of > binaries, working sets and the stack. > > x86_64 also gets registers over plain i386. So, the extra register room > can make up for any extra cache footprint.
I doubt it works like you just have outlined it ;) Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
