>64-bit Intel means more performance as the cpu has more registers Sometimes. First of all its a bummer Apple only sells Intel. AMD makes quality chips. 64-bit

>64-bit Intel means more performance as the cpu has more registers Sometimes. First of all its a bummer Apple only sells Intel. AMD makes quality chips. 64-bit means better performance sometimes. Usually you take a hit because of larger pointers. LLVM can do pointer compression, it'd be interesting to know if Apple uses it widely. 64-bit really is awesome when you want to use lots of memory. Otherwise 32-bit is perfectly fine. I've been a 64-bit enthusiast for quite sometime and I can pull up plenty of Gentoo posts from back in the day advocating the wonder of registers. Not all algorithms magically improve in performance when they are available unfortunately. Also, no mention of my GPU argument? I'm sure you won't say there is more performance to be had there.