Re: [Sbcl-devel] 64-bit sbcl

[kr <kr...@n-...>]

Brian Mastenbrook writes:
 > There's no reason to expect that 64-bit code will be faster than 32-bit 
 > code in general. Bloating the size of pointers by a factor of 2 will 
 > slow down your application.

why would making the pointers bigger slow down an application, given
that the data paths are also made wider by the same amount ?  the
"speed" should stay the same.

the memory footprint will aproximately double, but that is a different
issue (so you will need twice the amount of RAM to avoid swapping).

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regards
markus krummenacker