Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> some percents slower (except in the AMD 64-bit processor, where they
> for some odd reason did not optimize 32-bit execution as much as the
> 64-bit execution like every other 64-bit processor has done).

Well, he did say that he has an AMD64, so he probably only cares about 
that, not about 64bit in general.

And AFAIK the AMD64 has more registers in 64bit mode than in 32bit,
mode, wich isn't odd, since they won't be of any use in 32bit mode anyways
(both the OS and software need to "know" about them to take advantage).

Every time someone here asks about an AMD64 version they get replies
that 64bit versions in general won't be of much use, but it seems so far
nobody has ACTUALLY compiled it for AMD64 and tried it... *sigh*

Lutz-Peter

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