Re: [Nolug] Centos

On 10/26/2011 11:36 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
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>
> And when you want to load a word into a register, there are twice as
> many bits for your CPU to load.

You seems to be confusing modern CPUs with the 8088 or 80386SX (which
most here will remember had data busses half of the register width),
since a 64-bit data bus moves 64 bits from cache just as fast as it
moves 32 bits.

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