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[Taco Hoekwater <taco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> 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.
>
> well, the fact that linux 64 bit runs much faster contradicts that
>
> one thing that we observed is that the lua garbage collected performs 
> different on different platforms / architectures / cpu cache etc

Another way to get a speed penalty is when the exe 64-bit but some of
the libraries it (or the operating system) needs to use are 32-bit.

Best wishes,
Taco