On Wednesday 21 June 2006 07:26, Mike Huber wrote: > My understanding is that the major advantage of the 64-bit processors > is for memory address space (>4Gigs of virtual memory space without > PAE, technically 48 bits of address space, which is something like > 128Terrabytes of addressable memory). > > There must be some advantage associated with being able to hold two > long ints in one register (or some such relationship there). Anyone > know detailed explanations for situations where 64-bit is more/less > beneficial and why? >
large numbers? but the 64bit amd extension is really, really helpfull, when you need registers. The additional registers are a huge advantage and can give you a nice boost. Can, not have too - it depends on the task and how the software was compiled. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
