On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Eric Keller <[email protected]> wrote:

> My experience is that, in general, 64 bit makes things slower on the
> same hardware.  I was going to try to run 64bit on my new machine and
> decided 32 was good enough.  Maybe when it's easier, I'll switch

Well, 64-bit mode also enables other architecture improvements, mostly
more and bigger registers. This is of course partly offset by more
data movement due to longer pointers. Usually people quote 5-10% speed
increase for 64-bit applications on a 64-bit platform vs. 32-bits.

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