[linux-audio-user] Academic question about AMD64 and audio

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:25:15AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:

> Unless you've got more than 3 gig of ram I doubt it will make much
> difference. 32bit binaries are smaller, and hence faster, but there are a
> couple of 64bit only instructions that the compiler might use that could
> give some speed benefit.
> 
> If you try it, why dont you measure the difference and tell us?
> 
> Personally I'd be supprised if the 64bit version is measurably faster, but
> I'm often supprised :)

You wouldn't expect the increase in register count to make a fairly
significant difference?

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