Kai Tietz <[email protected]> writes:

>> Are there known slow spots on the 64 bit runtimes?
>
> Well, there might be some.  I can't actual confirm this finding in
> general.  The load you see is often application-specific.
> I know about a lot of application, which are actual about 30% faster
> on 64-bit over 32-bit.  Mainly caused by wider memory-moves, and use
> of more registers.
>
> So a profiling would be indeed interesting to learn where your
> application spends cycles over the 32-bit.
> In general we might have some opportunities to optimize further math for x64.

Yep, a profile comparision is the key here, but gprof refuses to give
any numbers (although a 230KB file gmon.out is generated.) Tried with
Very Sleepy sampling profiler, which gave suspicious (looking
unreliable) results for the 64 bit executable and simply crashed for the
32 bit one. <sigh>

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