[CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

[John R Pierce]

On 08/23/11 9:21 PM, ken wrote:
> I haven't looked up and compared the lists of instructions
> on 32- vs. 64-bit CPUs, but generally the bigger processors have more,
> and more sophisticated, instructions.  This means, e.g., that instead of
> taking 20 steps to do a calculation on a 32-bit CPU, it might be done in
> 5 steps on a 64-bit.

except, this is almost entirely wrong.



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