-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-12-19 at 16:38 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: ...
It's not about the processor, OK? It's about how much demand 64-bit everything places on the memory subsystem. Why fetch and store so many 64-bit quantities that don't make any use of the upper 32 bits? It's all a big waste of memory bandwidth.
Even with a 64 bit system, you can define 32 bits integers, or 16, or 8, and just load the needed bits, not 64 every time. It's only if you tell the compiler to use 64 bit alignement when that might be true. AFAIK, of course :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFiJEatTMYHG2NR9URAkh7AJ0f4zxQ4GYMphZym5o84DhGWstDOgCbBOf9 7/uZOeLd62py787sp5CTYFg= =9Sa1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org