Aaron Bannert wrote: > > > >BTW.. you do know that 64bit programs take a ~10% hit in performance > > >don't you? > > Why's this?
Because of various reasons. Maybe the major of them, is the size of used memory: Memory usage is higher, because of default sizes of various types, alignments, etc. I/O is heavier too, because swapping needs to write/read larger memory areas. In specific cases, the performance may be improved by using 64bit. For example, in programs that heavily use "long long" arithmetic. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel
