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Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries?

Posted by michael on from the glass-half-empty dept.

JigSaw writes "The modern dogma is that 32-bit applications are faster, and that 64-bit imposes a performance penalty. Tony Bourke decided to run a few of tests on his SPARC to see if indeed 64-bit binaries ran slower than 32-bit binaries, and what the actual performance disparity would ultimately be."

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  1. Hello World As A Benchmark! by PissingInTheWind · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That has to be the most stupidest compiler test I've ever read.

    And it's not the number of bits that is important: it's the size of them.

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  2. Re:It all depends... by Frymaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    art tatum? shouldn't you be dead or something?

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  3. Re: OSNews by kayen_telva · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how is this offtopic ?
    he claimed the article was trash and I disagreed.