Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well at least very similar speeds seem not too unreasonable. I am not sure if the 64bit pointers would hurt the performance of gcc in any way. It does have to move more bytes around than a 32bit machine. it is certainly faster at many tasks.
It is probably not as much the 64 bit pointers that could be a problem, but register allocation to the extra registers (propably only gcc 3.4+). But then again. These registers are also available to the compiler, so it may cancel out this effect.
/Jacob