Ian Collins <i...@ianshome.com> wrote: > > If you have an orthogonal architecture like sparc, a typical 64 bit program > > is > > indeed a bit slower than the same program in 32 bit. > > > > On Amd64, you have twice as many registers in 64 bit mode and this is the > > reason for a typical performance gain of ~ 30% for 64 bit applications. > > > > > Do you have the data to back that up? Most things I've looked at on X64 > are slower in 64 bit mode.
Did you test on sparc or amd64? See above... Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss