[geeks] Dual Core Rules: your bugs will run twice as fast

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
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>
> I haven't been impressed with the speed.  The few things were it would
> really matter don't seem to be as well optimized.  For instance, 
> mplayer
> and ffmpeg don't really seem to be any faster on a 1.8ghz C2D in 64 bit
> mode compared to a 1.7ghz P-M, and I suspect it is because of less hand
> assembly tuning.  I might appreciate the compile speed, but I can't use
> 64bit mode for compiling (unless I set up 32bit cross compilers, a step
> that I just haven't had the time for).
>

I wonder what would happen if you tried the Sun Studio Compiler for 
Linux.  Might it generate better 64bit code?

--Patrick