[rescue] Solaris on a PPC

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 03:40 AM, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
> Why is NT on Alpha 32bit? Wouldn't that mean horrible performance?

   Despite hype to the contrary, 64-bit code is NOT any faster than 
32-bit code, unless the code in question is dicking with 64-bit values 
directly (which would typically have to be done iteratively on a 32-bit 
machine) or needs a virtual address space of more than 2^32 bytes.

   The notion that the simple matter of having pointers and integers 
that are 64-bits wide is somehow faster is asinine at best.

          -Dave

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