Intel's Penryn Benchmarked 124
Steve Kerrison writes "Intel's keen to show off its up-coming 45nm Penryn Core 2 CPU. HEXUS had some hands on time with the new processor to get an idea of how well it will perform once its released: 'Intel's new 45nm Penryn core adds more than just a clock and FSB hike, so much so that even a dual-core Penryn is able to beat out a quad-core QX6800 under certain circumstances.'"
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As for pointers being twice the size, yeah that's a pain. You can code around that if you know you'll be indexing something smaller than 4GB in size (hint: x86_64 can still efficiently use 32-bit registers). But if you're poking around a 10GB mmap object you just need 64-bit pointers so there is no getting around that anyways.
Since x86_64 can run 32-bit apps in long mode, you can just re-compile your app for 32-bit mode if it's absolutely not going to take advantage of the memory space or register size.
Tom
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