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Subject: Re: Question to 64 bit experts

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 09:02:40 01/19/05

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On January 19, 2005 at 11:55:43, Rémi Coulom wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am porting my chess program to 64 bit on an AMD64 Athlon processor. I have
>noticed that, with gcc, sizeof(int)=4. I would have expected sizeof(int)=8. On
>32-bit platforms, 32-bit variables are faster than 16-bit variables. I wonder if
>64-bit variables are faster than 32-bit variables on 64-bit machines. I have
>made a few experiments and did not notice much difference.
>
>Rémi

There's some information here:

http://www.devx.com/amd/Article/16101

Longs and pointers are 64 bits. Ints remain 32 bits. You can use -m64 to force a
64-bit compilation or -m32 to force 32-bit.

I'm afraid that's all I know!

Andrew



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