Re: Version after Version


Frank de Groot wrote:

> When written to take advantage of the 64-bit wide data path, applications
> can become twice as fast."

<snip>

Your whole argument is premised on 64 bit operations like
multiplication. This is a fairly small part of any application. Most
people don't even use anywhere near the range of 32 bit integers.

I should also add that larger data size implies more paging to disk.

--
Marc

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