[X4U] Tiger & 64-Bit Applications...

[Richard Gilmore]

What makes the G5 chip so much faster than the G4 if the "bits" aren't so
much of a factor?


dZ.  wrote: 


> The problem, as I see it, is that most general users have bought into
> the marketing campaigns that more is always better, 64bits is twice as
> good as 32bits, 1.42MHz is faster than 1.25MHz (by virtue of clock
> speed alone), yadda yadda.  Increasing memory, bus/memory bandwidth,
> clock speed, or word bit-length, each one individually, is only part of
> the answer.  For overall performance increase a *lot* of other factors
> need to be considered,