There are still no real life applications out there that actually benefit from 64 bit technology. 64 Bit Far Cry for example does NOT perform better than the 32 Bit version, this had been tested and analized by several magazines. AMD obviously had a great interest in the 64 Bit port, but that´s basically the whole truth behind it. And another well analyzed fact is that 64 bit applications usually are just fatter and actually slower than their 32 bit counterparts.
By the way, most Intel Core Duos that I see are 32 bit CPUs, so I'm not so sure whether all processors are really 64 bit today. And the truth still is: It does not matter.
Provided they are properly designed, applications benefit more from multi-processing than from 64 bit architectures. The complexity of today´s applications benefits from parallelization, not from bigger registers.
BlitzMax does not support either technology, so the discussion in this forum is purely academic, isn´t it?
By the way, most Intel Core Duos that I see are 32 bit CPUs, so I'm not so sure whether all processors are really 64 bit today. And the truth still is: It does not matter.
Provided they are properly designed, applications benefit more from multi-processing than from 64 bit architectures. The complexity of today´s applications benefits from parallelization, not from bigger registers.
BlitzMax does not support either technology, so the discussion in this forum is purely academic, isn´t it?