Hamish Marson <hamish@travellingkiwi.com> writes: > I'm not sure how your logic works out that a 64 bit reg is going to be > faster than a 32bit one. Or do you mean simply you're expecting a > speedu because there are MORE 64 bit registers tahn 32 bit registers? IIRC x86-64 has 8 additional registers, which helps *alot* given the very few registers ia32 has. Gerd -- Gerd Knorr <kraxel@debian.org>