Win7 vs Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit vs 64-bit)

This benchmark is designed to illustrate platform-compiler choice for BitMagic derived computational algorithms.

Test total numbers (shorter - faster)

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Test Platform: Nehalem Core i5, 2.67GHz (Turbo Boost enabled)
BitMagic Library 3.6.2 (not yet released)

Windows 7 32-bit used default 32-bit compile using MSVC8. SSE4 optimization disabled.

Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit GCC 4.4.1 with compile options ( -march=core2 -m64 -msse4 )

BitMagic 64-bit optimizations + SSE4 optimizations:
#define BMSSE42OPT
#define BM64OPT

(this combination will be supported in BitMagic Library 3.6.2).

All measurements in seconds (shorter - faster).

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As you can see, 32-bit default compile using stock compiler looses in almost every test to 64-bit SSE4.2 version, tuned for the platform.

Yes, this experiment intentionally staged for Windows7+MSVC to loose (by using unfavorable compilation and optimization settings: stock x86 32-bit software suffers from register starvation, ofter ignores presence of SIMD SSE unit. Having said that such resource under-utilization often happens in real-life and it is often ignored as insignificant. From this data we can see that sometimes insignificant things can add-up to measurable values.