Max Laier said: > Sure, you measure it ;) ... no, of course it is more expensive to update a > 64bit counter on a 32bit arch, but the key (once again) is descision: > While > (almost) all of the pf counters are 64bit types you can configure it not > to > use the loginterface or whatsoever more. So it's up to you: You need 64bit > counters? You shall have them! You need *fast* 64bit counters? AMD sells > nice processors (they say)! ... you get the idea. Got it. In just curious though... realistically, how big of an impact on performance is this on a modern CPU? Is it not simply the original 32bit calculation x 2?Received on Mon Mar 15 2004 - 15:48:25 UTC
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