AZ Nomad <aznomad.2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:00:18 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:43:05 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>> "Valued customers" bug Neat Receipts over Vista support
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| There, people wonder why it's just so difficult for firms to develop 64-bit
>>>| drivers. Microsoft might be a better company to ask - but we suspect it's a
>>>| huge sea change and we are just the flots and the jets being carried along on
>>>| the top of an irresistible wave.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42548
>>>
>>> Even some Microsoft products do not support 64-bit PCs. Of course, open source
>>> drivers don't have this issue.
>
>>I think the issue here is that, for a variety of reasons, Linux drivers are
>>typically written in C, and not optimized to the Nth degree for performance
>>like their Windows counterparts are.
>
> Windows isn't optimized for anything.
> Their primary problem with 64 bit machines is that they don't have a second
> semester CS student in the house who can write a decent compiler. Their
> 64 bit code is bloated garbage. Only microsoft could fail from
> yielding any performance improvement at all when using a 64bit
> machine.
I have seem zero performance gain using a 64 bit Debian over the 32 bit
counterpart. Certain applications may even perform worse.
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