POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Real benefit of a 64 bit Pov binary on a 64 bit CPU in a 64 bit opsys?: Re: Real benefit of a 64 bit Pov binary on a 64 bit CPU in a 64 bit opsys?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Real benefit of a 64 bit Pov binary on a 64 bit CPU in a 64 bit opsys? : Re: Real benefit of a 64 bit Pov binary on a 64 bit CPU in a 64 bit opsys?		Server Time 31 Jul 2024 22:08:40 EDT (-0400)

From: Warp
Date: 31 Jul 2006 08:27:00
Message: <44cdf714$1@news.povray.org>

Ger wrote:
> About 20-30% speed increase should be typical

   Should be typical on which processor?

   A 64-bit binary in a Sun Sparc is not faster than a 32-bit binary.
The same is probably true in a Macintosh.
   In the AMD64 there's a speedup when running 64-bit binaries, but
that speedup has basically nothing to do with the amount of bits.

> Under 32bit OS your max-mem is 3Gb

   This is based on what? Which OS?

> under 64bit it's 2^64 which is huge.

   Current hardware probably puts a limit and 2^64 bytes of RAM
is (in current hardware) not possible.

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