x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)
Paul Jakma
paul at dishone.st
Sun Dec 13 18:34:58 UTC 2009
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Roland McGrath wrote:
> x86 is unlike other architectures because 64-bit also has twice as
> many registers as 32-bit. So you get to trade off the benefits of
> register allocation across more registers against the memory/cache
> footprint of 64-bit pointers.
For what percentage of code is that an appreciable advantage?
regards,
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