O Plameras wrote: > I was anticipating 64-bit will give similar improvements in speed > from a 16-bit to 32-bit machine. I have a good idea of the change > in speed from 16-bit to 32-bit. It appears this is not going to be > the case with 16-bit to 32-bit.
Any speed up moving from 16 to 32 bits was due to clock speed, not the number of bits in the registers. > The so-called 64-bit is really not 64-bit. The registers are still > 32-bit, Sorry, thats wrong. The registers *ARE* 64 bit. > it appears without having gone through the arch-docs. I thoroughly recommend you do. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "To me C++ seems to be a language that has sacrificed orthogonality and elegance for random expediency." -- Meilir Page-Jones -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
