In some email I received from Christos Zoulas, sie wrote:
> In article <199906070704.RAA00417@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au (Darren Reed) writes:
> >
> >Does that collection of patches below help you with this ?
> >
> >I'm somewhat surprised this has been left open given its rather
> >innocent and `simple' nature.  I haven't tested these yet, but
> >they appear right...will test them late.
> >
> 
> Problem is that on 32 bit machines they suck a lot of performance.

These are only counters.  If you can provide some evidence that changing
these counters from 32 bit to 64 bit causes a significant slowdown in the
machine's processing, then I'd consider it (by significant, I mean increase
in CPU time of several % at least).

Otherwise, this is just FUD, IMHO.