Serge Cohen wrote:
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> In short, if one's program doesn't require large data-space it will
> nearly always perform better using 32b, at the exception of the x86_64
> vs. x86(32b) where the difference will be coming from a completely
> different reason (namely : more registers available on the processors)
> and the overall performance results is likely to vary from one software
> to the other.
As an example, running povray on x86_64 Fedora 6 is 30%
faster than running the 32 bit version on a 32 bit Fedora 6,
on the same machine.
Mogens
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