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[Diego Depaoli <trebestie@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/7/18 Taco Hoekwater <taco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>
>> In my humble opinion this is because TeX manages memory by it self...
>> and maybe a 64bit memory word of packed data uses twice of memory as
>> 32bits one.... I am not sure.
>
> It could be because web2c by default declares the integer type as
> "long int" on 64-bit platforms, and that that is what makes everything
> twice the size, but the --enable-dump-share argument to configure is
> supposed to prevent it from doing so, so it seems something odd is
> going on. Can you try to check the sizeof(integer) within a debugger?
>
> (the 64bit linux is indeed faster than the 32bit linux on the same
> hardware)
There is anywhere a benchmark file?

Cheers
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Diego Depaoli