Re: [Chicken-users] 64 bit success stories for Chicken?

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:35:55AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Does anybody have seen a performance increase when running Chicken in 64 bit
> mode compared to similar (or same) processors running Chicken in 32 bit mode?
> If so, which modifications were needed and what type of application was it?  I
> am mainly interested in applications that were compiled by Chicken.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this question applies to the C compiler 
your
using, not to Chicken itself.
So, the real question is: "How well does GCC perform on 64-bit?"
I think you ought to be able to find some benchmarks on that.

Regards,
Peter
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