On Sun, Aug 21, 2011, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: [Haifux] Running 32 bit applications (Firefox?) on 64 bit machines": > I forgot to mention that sometimes, on really funny occasions, you get a > performance penalty from using the 64bit code. For example, when you take a > number close to 1 (1.00000001) to a power. You will get absolutely stuck > with the 64bit code.
This is really bizarre... I wonder how x86 and x86-64 differ in that regard? -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Aug 22 2011, 22 Av 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Unix is simple, but it takes a genius to http://nadav.harel.org.il |understand its simplicity. _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
