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general_re wrote:

What does "full performance" mean? 64-bit Office is not inherently faster than 32-bit Office, all else being equal.

--Here is what they say: "64-bit processing chips, which can access bigger chunks of memory and move data around faster than 32-bit chips"

[general_re]

Yeah, but they're full of it. The only way it's faster is if your software needs to shove large ints/floats around, in which case the compiler no longer have to dumb it down. Most software that you're likely to use isn't like that. You're not going to see a boost in Office performance, for example, unless you're doing some fairly wacky stuff in Excel. The main benefit most people will see will come from the larger addressable memory space.