F 15. 64 bit versus 32 bit.

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 17:40, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> The bottom line here is you can't make a blanket statement
> that 64-bit code is slower. And if you have a decent optimizing
> compiler, your performance could improve.

I don´t make any blanket statement. Sun/Oracle´s FAQ does say there´s
a 0-15% performance hit due to bigger code.

You´re right, there are other very valid reasons to use 64-bit code
and 64-bit VMs.

But in some instances 32-bit VMs are faster.
FC