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Re: 64 bit VM, source anyone?

Posted by Michael van der Gulik-2 on Dec 05, 2007; 12:59am
URL: https://forum.world.st/64-bit-VM-source-anyone-tp106194p106212.html

 
On Dec 5, 2007 10:23 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:


PS. The reason I said "slowish" is that... well, it is definitely not
much faster than my Pentium-M laptop. But after talking on IRC it became
clear that those numbers may very well be the expected.

Why would a 64-bit VM be slower?

Would it be because it's moving twice as much memory around, or because it's fiddling with 32-bit pointers using 64-bit registers?

Gulik.

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