[geeks] 64-bit apps vs. 32-bit apps

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Doug McLaren wrote:

> gzip comes with assembly language cores for several architectures, so
> it doesn't make a very good benchmark of compiler options unless you
> make sure to compile it with the asm core disabled.

Ah!  I'd never read the source code, so I didn't know that.

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