Re: 64-Bit Compiler Would Help Sell More 32-Bit Compilers

From: Alexander Adam (nospam_at_please.com)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:09:57 +0100

> Intel has said you can expect an average 10% increase in performance
> just by recompiling for x64. Tweak your code using BASM to take
> advantage of some of the more esoteric features and you're probably
> looking at a 25+% boost.

Sorry, but that just sounds quite silly from Intel then. Take e.g. a simple
word processing app.. you really think there'd be a speedup of 10% just by
compilling it for 64bit? _never_ ;-)

Alex

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