Here are your 64-bit comparisons: http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/archive/2006/07/13/ 664890.aspx
It's my benchmark of Paint.NET developed awhile ago for the v2.6 release. It runs a lot of compute-intensive image processing code in both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Summary: Athlon gains 60% in this benchmark by going to 64-bit, whereas Conroe gains 40%. In 32-bit mode, Conroe is ahead by 33%, but in 64-bit mode the advantage drops to 15%. (when comparing 2.4 GHz to 2.4 GHz)
For Paint.NET v2.2 we are using code signing (http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net -- Alpha 1 was released on Monday). Every update that is downloaded by the app must be signed and the signature's cert must validate up to a trusted root before it will be installed. We are doing this mostly to prevent users from accidentally installing updates that we didn't release (hax0red DNS or network setups). This isn't a perfect solution, of course, but far better than naively not doing anything. This post is made "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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Here are your 64-bit comparisons: http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/archive/2006/07/13/ 664890.aspx
It's my benchmark of Paint.NET developed awhile ago for the v2.6 release. It runs a lot of compute-intensive image processing code in both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Summary: Athlon gains 60% in this benchmark by going to 64-bit, whereas Conroe gains 40%. In 32-bit mode, Conroe is ahead by 33%, but in 64-bit mode the advantage drops to 15%. (when comparing 2.4 GHz to 2.4 GHz)
For Paint.NET v2.2 we are using code signing (http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net -- Alpha 1 was released on Monday). Every update that is downloaded by the app must be signed and the signature's cert must validate up to a trusted root before it will be installed. We are doing this mostly to prevent users from accidentally installing updates that we didn't release (hax0red DNS or network setups). This isn't a perfect solution, of course, but far better than naively not doing anything.
This post is made "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.