On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 17:40, Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> The bottom line here is you can't make a blanket statement >> that 64-bit code is slower. And if you have a decent optimizing >> compiler, your performance could improve. > > I don´t make any blanket statement. Sun/Oracle´s FAQ does say there´s > a 0-15% performance hit due to bigger code. > > You´re right, there are other very valid reasons to use 64-bit code > and 64-bit VMs. > > But in some instances 32-bit VMs are faster. > FC Oracle is now giving away JRockit. From a little googling, it seems it does not suffer any 64 bit problems. For the situations that I need that 15% I can use JRockit. Being a developer, I need to test it anyhow. -- nat -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
