Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Stefan Viljoen <spamnot@ wrote:
> > Would have been nice if it rendered twice as fast, though...
>
>    Think about it for a moment. Exactly *what* would be the thing
> in a 64-bit binary which could possibly make it twice as fast compared
> to a 32-bit binary?
>
>    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.
>

If a 64-bit processor could run two 32-bit programs at the same time, or if
a 64-bit binary ran two equivalent 32-bit processes simultaneously, then it
would make sense that it could be twice as fast.  But, that's only true if
it takes the same amount of time to perform a 64-bit operation as a 32-bit
operation (which isn't the case).

Mike

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