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2 edits | reply to rudnicke
Re: Is XP-64bit or XP-32bit better for gaming?
Stay with 32bit for now..
Anyway at the moment most 64bit compilers don't take full advantage of the extra 8 general purpose registers(x86 has 8,x86-64 has 16) and this an important reason why 64bit doesn't give us a signifact performance increase over 32bit.
And in fact its not easy to take advantage of those extra 8 registers, cause compilers after all are just machines\programs, they don't know what are you trying to do.. they're just translating your instructions into a working binary code.
Obviously, complied code isn't going to be as fast as assembly code anytime soon, but compilers will improve over the time and will utilize those 8 extra instructions x86-64 has to offer better. |
