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turtle
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Formerly turtle2472
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
 
2005-09-26, 14:59

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Originally Posted by Dave
Not really. There's nothing special about 64bit CPUs that make them inherently faster than 32bit CPUs. It just means that the CPU can access more memory and that it uses 64 bits for an integer instead of 32 bits. That's about it. Nothing really goes faster.
So that would mean if you are crunching larger values that the 64bit could handle them better and therefor faster also though, right? With a larger allocation of memory available then that would only add to it's computing abilities, right? (Yes, questions out of ignorance.)

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