Chambers wrote:
> 
>>The sense of this test is of course extremely questionable (what are
>>they actually trying to compare there?).
>>
>>Christoph
> 
> 
> Exactly what they state they are testing: the readiness of certain operating
> systems for 64bitness "out of the box".

No, for that they would not need any benchmark results because they have 
nothing to do with the 'readiness'.  The only 'readiness' fact that you 
can indirectly deduce from the results is the availability of 64bit 
software on the different systems.

What you can conclude from the benchmark results they gave is: how the 
official 32bit version on 64bit Windows compares to the 32bit version on 
two specific 64bit Linux distributions - basing an OS/hardware decision 
on that would be just insane.  And you can see which of the two tested 
Linux distributions ships a better optimized 64bit POV-Ray which also 
does not have much to do with which of them is more 'ready'.

Christoph

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