On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:20 PM, RSmith <[email protected]> wrote: > miniscule. On the downside, a 64-bit system uses 64 bit values for all > registers even where 32-bit values could have sufficed, and so all internal > looping through bits or register shifts take longer, but generally by > negligible amounts. >
To add to that: the doubling of the size of a (void*) in 64-bit costs many types of applications/libraries notably more memory, up to twice as much for pointer-only structures. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
