[Vm-dev] 64 bit VM, source anyone?

[Michael van der Gulik]

On Dec 5, 2007 10:23 AM, <goran at krampe.se> wrote:

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> PS. The reason I said "slowish" is that... well, it is definitely not
> much faster than my Pentium-M laptop. But after talking on IRC it became
> clear that those numbers may very well be the expected.
>

Why would a 64-bit VM be slower?

Would it be because it's moving twice as much memory around, or because it's
fiddling with 32-bit pointers using 64-bit registers?

Gulik.

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