GrantRi's WebLog [MS]Ramblings of a compiler geekMore on 64-vs-32- January 27, 2005 OK, this isn't a really meaty post, it's more of a collection of a few ideas that have been rattling around in my head for a while. I kept hoping they'd develop into something bigger, or I'd have time to researchinvestigate them more, but nothings happened, so I'll just dump them as is. So when comparing AMD64 chips to normal x86 chips, there's two broad categories of differences: Registers and Pointers are now twice as big. Killer architecture that helps even x86 code run faster. Most...http://blogs.msdn.com/grantri/archive/2005/01/27/361852.aspx |