[rescue] OS X is certified UNIX

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Thu Jun 14 10:39:22 CDT 2007


On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:14:29AM -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 10:09 -0500, Brian Deloria wrote:
> > There's XP "WoW" and XP64.  My understanding is that until you exceed the
> > 4GB barrier of memory utilization there is no cost benefit but rather a loss
> > in performance, or at least so sayeth the Unigraphics guys.
> > 
> 
> The numbers I've seen on non-windows machines show better performance in
> 64-bit mode over 32-bit.  Having 8 extra registers makes the code
> happier.

Only if you are running 64bit applications, which I'd wager most games
are not.



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