Ive <ive### [at] lilysoftcom> wrote:
> > > Somehow this
> > > reminds me on people who seem to think a 64bit CPU is twice as fast as a
> > > 32bit one.

> Yes, sure you are right and your example is much better. It was just the case
> that a few minutes before writing this I did read a posting where somebody
> seriously did say this.

  It's nothing new. When Intel introduced their 386 processor some people
claimed that 32-bit programs would run twice as fast as the back then
current 16-bit programs... :)

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