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 bitopsys?

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 bitopsys?		Server Time 31 Jul 2024 22:13:01 EDT (-0400)

From: Tim Cook
Date: 31 Jul 2006 09:36:14
Message: <44ce074e@news.povray.org>

Warp wrote:
>   Where does this idea that increasing bitness can make a binary
> faster come from? I don't get it. It's a bit like saying that reading
> a book is faster if we make the pages twice as big. It doesn't make
> any sense.

Except that case does; you spend less time turning pages... ;)

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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