Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> writes: > so it looks like the vmware emulated system is much faster. Is it the > x64 working faster at its design sizes or perhaps the compiler or > could it be the vmware system caching all writes etc etc? For the red > hat x64 build the only special configuration was to use ucs2
You have to control all these variables separately in order to know. But, 64 bit code is in general faster than 32 bit code when properly compiled: more cpu registers, wider moves when copying large blocks of data, floating point registers instead of the legacy stack-oriented FPU, etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
