30 Oct
2007
30 Oct
'07
22:09
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 15:02, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
- Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> [10-30-07 17:51]:
Jan's points have little to do with mine. Move twice as much data to perform a given task with the same bus and memory hardware will take twice as long.
but it's not the same bus
Eh? We're talking about whether to run a 32-bit or a 64-bit OS (and applications) on a given system. There's only one bus. Even when running in 32-bit mode, the same cache, FSB and RAM data paths are active and they're still all 64 bits wide.
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-- Patrick Shanahan
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