On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
Do you do anything that would benefit from a 64-bit word? I have just in the past few days discovered that my new laptop with 2GHz AMD 64-bit Turion is almost twice the speed on bit-map intensive programs as the desktop with 2.8GHz Pentium 4. (32-bit).
In my experience, the only real-world benefit for the general use case of most desktop systems is that running 64-bit lets you use more than 3GB of RAM.
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