Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] 64 bit vs 32 bit

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:38:58AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> > I was afraid of that.  It looks like I will be reinstalling my distro
> > :)
> 
> It would probably be a fairly marginal difference though..
> (Right? I haven't done any tests..)

Twice as many registers available for the compiler in 64-bit mode.
This makes a big difference, since the X86 architecture is register
starved.

Eric