The additional complexities of 64 bit memory operations may actually cause a loss of performance. Here's a page that did some benchmarks which shows some difference, but their disclaimer is the same as mine. You have to read between the lines a bit.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1665 These tests were preformed on Sun OS with a 64 bit OS and 64 bit hardware architecture, which came to slightly different conclusions. http://www.osnews.com/story.php/5768/Are-64-bit-Binaries-Really-Slower-than-32-bit-Binaries/page1/ William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "P. J. Alling" > Subject: Re: OT: Windows Computer Questions > > > >> 64 bit software is likely to be slower, (which goes for the OS as >> well), >> when compared with 32 bit software on any given platform. >> > > Now that is interesting. > Naturally, I thought that going 64 bit would give me a speed increase. > Would you elaborate on this please? > Thanks > > William Robb > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
