On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:25:15AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > Unless you've got more than 3 gig of ram I doubt it will make much > difference. 32bit binaries are smaller, and hence faster, but there are a > couple of 64bit only instructions that the compiler might use that could > give some speed benefit. > > If you try it, why dont you measure the difference and tell us? > > Personally I'd be supprised if the 64bit version is measurably faster, but > I'm often supprised :) You wouldn't expect the increase in register count to make a fairly significant difference? -- Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.jdboyd.net/ http://www.joshuaboyd.org/
