On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, <li...@lazygranch.com> wrote: > The intel 64 bit CPUs used the AMD64 instruction set. >
There are still some Itaniums around (which are not AMD64) which is why I made an exclusion for non-x64 architecture. > > Note there are more instructions in the 64bit architecture, so some > programs are more efficient under a 64 bit OS. > True. You just have to compile for both and profile them to see which is better for a given application. Orin. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.