[mythtv-users] 32 bit or 64bit???
John Drescher
drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 02:12:32 UTC 2009
> Will you see any performance boost from 64-bit? Probably not. Will
> running 64-bit prevent you from doing something? Also very doubtful.
>
Theoretically there is a difference more than the extra address space.
The processor has 8 extra integer registers and also 8 more SIMD
registers that are not seen or used when you run 32 bit applications.
The following link discusses this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
John
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