[Pythonmac-SIG] Leopard python architectures in setup.py

[Ian Baird]

On x86-64, you get more GPRs. From my naive benchmarking with my  
algorithms on ObjC, I get at 15%-20% speedup.

Ian

On Nov 5, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:

>
> semi OT:
>
> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> It's to bad that they don't ship 64-bit command-line utilities as  
>> well.
>
> What does 64-bit buy you? Is the only advantage the ability to  
> address a
> lot of memory? Any other performance advantages?
>
> i.e. -- how much should I care?
>
> -Chris
>
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