x64 speed

[Robin Becker]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
.....
> I follow David's guess that Linux does better IO than Windows (not
> knowing anything about the benchmark, of course)
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

I originally thought it must be the vmware host stuff offloading IO to 
the second core, but watching with sysinternals didn't show a lot of 
extra stuff going on with the vm compared to just running on the host.
-- 
Robin Becker