Re: 64 Bit build for Sparc

At 06:11 AM 8/23/02 , Alex Paulusberger wrote:
>B: if there any indication that this will improve performance

According to Sun, you should expect a small performance =loss= for 64 bit
applications (pointer arithmetic just got more complicated, for
example).  They suggest you only compile 64 bit if you need to address
large in-memory structures and the like, or unless you're running on a
machine who's instruction set is natively 64 bit (SunFire?).


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