On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Roland McGrath wrote:
x86 is unlike other architectures because 64-bit also has twice as
many registers as 32-bit. So you get to trade off the benefits of
register allocation across more registers against the memory/cache
footprint of 64-bit pointers.
For what percentage of code is that an appreciable advantage?
regards,
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