[time-nuts] NTP for 64 bit windows

Orin Eman orin.eman at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 19:54:35 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, <lists at lazygranch.com> wrote:

> The intel 64 bit CPUs used the AMD64 instruction set.
>


There are still some Itaniums around (which are not AMD64) which is why I
made an exclusion for non-x64 architecture.


>
> Note there are more instructions in the 64bit architecture, so some
> programs are more efficient under a 64 bit OS.
>


True.  You just have to compile for both and profile them to see which is
better for a given application.

Orin.



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