[POLLING] strange interrupt/system load

[rihad]

Barney Cordoba wrote:
> 
> --- On Sun, 9/13/09, rihad <rihad at mail.ru> wrote:
>> What's wrong with 64 bits?
> 
> I haven't spent a large portion of my life trying to figure
> it out exactly, but I'd guess that the larger size of the 
> structures and code results in fewer cache hits.

Then what's wrong with also doubling cache sizes?
Besides, apart from other benefits, 64-bit makes every-day big number 
arithmetic a single CPU instruction as opposed to several instructions 
required on 32-bit CPUs through bignum emulation.