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February 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:35 PM

Is 64-bit a superior platform as compared to the 32-bit platform?

A lot of people, from different walks of life meet me and often ask, that now, with the availability of 64-bit platforms, should they only go and buy 64-bit machines? Is the 32-bit platform not old and slow? With the availability of 64-bit platforms they
Posted by GauravS | 2 Comments
Friday, February 17, 2006 8:32 PM

Is 64-bit platform always better than 32-bit?

I recently did some preliminary performance testing on the 64-bit platform Vs that on 32-bit. Here are the results of the same Calculation Speed (milliseconds) Memory Copy (milliseconds) Measure x86 x64 IA64 x86 x64 IA64 Iterations 100000 5.51 0.31 0.7
Posted by GauravS | 4 Comments
Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:51 PM

Customizing Menu Options in Visual Studio

This is one of the cool features that is offered in Visual Studio 2005 . I came across this recently, when one of our customers was unable to find the location of the Java Language Conversion Assistant in the normal File -> Open -> Convert... menu
Posted by GauravS | 6 Comments
 
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