Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 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.
>
>    Most processor which support both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries do
> not run the 64-bit ones faster. And of course: Why would they? Where
> could any speedup come from?



I think it's not so un-intuitive.  They make snowshovels wide for a reason.
 Without any prior knowledge on the subject, I think it's not that absurd to
suppose that fewer steps would be required from shoveling more bits at a
time.

Charles

PS, Speaking of scale and making things bigger, I have a hard disk
containing one very large bit.   Heads = 1  Tails = 0  (Be very careful
though not to change it's position or it might get "erased.")

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