19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
3:56 p.m.
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Chris Withers wrote:
The implicit change to make them all 64-bits which results in some unknown slowdown for all "I" BTree users seems a bit too scary to bite off...
Has anyone done any benchmarks to prove that 64-bits is slower or faster? It would be interesting to see benchmarks on modern 32bit and a 64bit systems. Until then it's all hand-waiving.
One data point: on my AMD 64 box, when I run 32 bit Linux, I get about 30,000 pystones, while 64 bit Linux yields 50,000 pystones. This doesn't mean 64 bit code is necessarily faster, but it does suggest that 64 bit CPUs prefer 64 bit code. Shane