performance in 64 bits machines.



Richard Fateman writes:
> I think you would find it difficult to match two computers that were in all
> ways identical except that one was 64-bit and the other 32-bit. Maybe you
> can run the same benchmark on one machine once using 32-bit and once using
> 64-bit versions of the software.
> 

Below you can see results in seconds of run_testsuite();
for Maxima 5.12 on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux 2.6.18 both running on
Athlon 64 X2 5600+ with 4Gb RAM (same machine, multi-boot):

                 32-bit        64-bit
clisp 2.41        65            85
gcl 2.6.8         16.8          18.2
sbcl 1.0.5        24.8          25.6


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