Darren Reed wrote:

> In some email I received from Christos Zoulas, sie wrote:
> > 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).

Indeed, going from 32 to 64 bit counters should add one or two instructions
every time you increase the counter (add to the accumulator).  I don't see
how that can suck performance so badly.

    -- Lennart