On Friday 30 September 2005 06:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This means that there is going to be minimal improvements from > > a 32-bit to 64-bit PCs. > > Since all your pointers are now twice as large, any data structure > that uses linked lists (or trees) is now also twice as large. > Since memory chips are not any faster on 64 bit architectures, > most of your programs will run slower. > > Thankfully, AMD supports 32 bit pointers by running in back-compatibility > mode so you can still have fast programs with small data structures.
My previous posting about thought experiments applies. This is not true. In general a 64bit processor will get 2x as much data per time unit as a 32bit processor and it will be faster as a result James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
