On 10 Sep 2013, at 22:48, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> wrote:
> On Sep 10, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Joseph Dixon <s...@dixondata.com> wrote: > >> Some operations that would have taken 2 cycles may now be done in one. > > Some. Probably not many. > >> Surely that leads to a performance boost, right? > > Maybe, maybe not. The flip side is that pointers are twice as large, so half > as many fit in cache. And off when you do need to hit RAM you need to fetch more data. Tom Davie _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
