> Also note that I know little to nothing about the CPU architectures in > place, which is why I asked whether someone knows a reason why 64bit > would be faster except for applications which actually require 64bit > numbers or pointers.
As someone else pointed out, the amd64 architecture has twice the number of registers of the 32 bit version, and thats where you get most of your speedup from. I, like Richard, had the initial impression of the 64 bit environment being "much" faster than 32 bit. But when you get down to it an actually make measurements then it is only a few percent faster in reality. ...but it *is* faster, on just about every task I tried. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
