Chris Adams wrote:
On a 64-bit system, all of physical memory can be mapped into the
kernel
address space at all times.
Also, x86_64 has a larger CPU register set, which can speed up some
operations.
Also, applications are always compiled for SSE on x86_64 as that is
not an optional feature of the hardware, so it can be assumed to be
always present.
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