Desktops usually no; Servers yes.

Posted Dec 9, 2004 19:02 UTC (Thu) by knobunc (guest, #4678)
In reply to: Desktops usually no; Servers yes. by dwheeler
Parent article: Fedora Core 3 on AMD64

What about the extra registers available in 64-bit mode? That alone is enough to speed up some tasks regardless of memory needed.

More registers = less register spilling. Means less stack access when calling subroutines. Compilation is a good example of when this is useful.

-ben