On Jul 17, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > --- >8 > > IMO, it's worth the 'overhead' to run 64-bit, if only for the greater > number of GPRs and other architectural improvements. There's honestly > a lot of good stuff in x86-64 beyond the larger address space. The > increased address space also helps long-lived programs avoid address > space fragmentation. > > -- > :wq >
+1 on architectural improvements. >From a purely data-wise view: with 64 bits, Long Integers will be handled much faster than having to manhandle 2 32-bit chunks of half-integers. Rgds,