Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? 444
JigSaw writes "The modern dogma is that 32-bit applications are faster, and that 64-bit imposes a performance penalty. Tony Bourke decided to run a few of tests on his SPARC to see if indeed 64-bit binaries ran slower than 32-bit binaries, and what the actual performance disparity would ultimately be."
Re: OSNews (Score:5, Funny)
The typical story is titled like "A comprehensive review of the Atari ST". The contents are typically something like... "I found an old Atari ST, but my cdrom wouldn't fit in the 5.25" disk drive and mozilla wouldn't compile. So the Atari sucks"
I benchmarked a skilled Chinese abacus user against a C-programmer implementing an accounting system. The chinese dude figured out that 1+1=2 before the C-programmer loaded his editor, so the abacus is faster.
It all depends... (Score:5, Funny)
More SCO code. (Score:2, Funny)
I create a very simple C file, which I call hello.c:
main()
{
printf("Hello!\n");
}
Watch out... SCO owns this bit of code too...
--ken
Re:It all depends... (Score:2, Funny)
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Dilbert: Sure! Just start randomly deleting things. All that data can be pretty heavy!!!!
(later)
Pointy haired boss: Hmmm...Windows? My house already has all I need! *click* Yes! That's gotta be like 5 pounds!
Re:It all depends... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:More SCO code. (Score:5, Funny)
Cool.
Of course, the funny thing is that I'm right (in a way).
Re:Moving more data (Score:2, Funny)
64-bit computers have to physically move data around? I suppose I'll have to buy a grappling arm attachment for my G5 to get it to work.
Re:I'll save you guys the read. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'll save you guys the read. (Score:4, Funny)
They didn't use an obsolete UltraSparc chip?
If 32bit is faster than 64... (Score:5, Funny)
And why stop there?
8bits should really scream.
I can see it now: 2GHz 6502 processors, retro computing. The 70's are back.
Benchmarks (Score:3, Funny)
There are 3 types lies. Lies. Damned Lies.
what a bunch of bullcrap (Score:1, Funny)
yes, right. we predict only on things we've seen someone else do in the past.
you've got the right idea, mate...
Re:It all depends... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Benchmarks (Score:5, Funny)
i've got some specint stats that show that damned lies are up to 30% faster.
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Re:It all depends... (Score:5, Funny)
this reminds of "back in the day" when we ran a token ring network. when end users would complain about net outage we'd simply tell them that the token got stuck or, worse yet lost. fortunately, we have a backup token on floppy back in the systems room. it's an fddi token, mind you, so it's a bit bigger but if you don't kink the cabling it should work fine for now.
Re:It all depends... (Score:5, Funny)
On early systems, particularly before the 286, the mass differential between 0 and 1 was a serious issue. However, the 286's innovative pipeline system introduced a shift in focus from mass to width. As pipelines became increasingly narrow, words composed primarily of "1"s began to execute at a more rapid pace than those with a heavy weighting of "0"s.
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Re:More bits doesn't automatically mean more speed (Score:1, Funny)
-new bill gates quote
Re: OSNews (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It all depends... (Score:5, Funny)
Man, I'm going offtopic, but back in my oil-changing days...
Some new guy had started working, and his neck was redder than desert sand. He told me that his girlfriend's car had a blinker out on the left and he replaced the bulb and the light didn't come back on. I asked him if he checked his blinker fluid. He said he didn't know what blinker fluid was. I told him that blinker fluid sits in a reservoir in the middle of the car, and when you make a turn the fluid flows in the opposite direction of the turn, into the blinkers, to make sure that the electrical connection is good.
He spent 3 hours the next morning, on his day off, calling up parts stores and asking them if they had any blinker fluid. Poor guy. I had to break it to him slowly...
Cleanup on aisle 3! (Score:4, Funny)
We were finding the damn things in the ventilators for weeks afterward.
Liquid Video (Score:2, Funny)
At the station I'm at now, they send PA's to ask the engineers for the "ChromaKey for the Genlock".
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That's the difference between a natural blonde and a dyed blonde.