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The garden gnome finds a champion in Nicholas Roe
Imagine how you would feel if a stranger stopped you in the street and, judging you with one swift, withering glance at your grubby brown trousers or deeply 2004 frock, announced that they wouldn't want to live in your house, thank you very much. Then they shuffled off.
What would you shout at their retreating backs? That first glances don't mean anything, dammit? That appearances deceive, you sniveller? That image is skin deep and anyway you're only wearing these strides because your other pair are in the wash?
Now, bear this in mind for a moment and consider the position of the gnome in the hearts and gardens of the British public; because something very similar has just happened to this poor little fellow; something for which we householders should be deeply ashamed and which says a lot about the way we choose to re-locate.
Before I go on, get a picture in your mind of a gnome's cute, pointy hat (the only one he has) his cheeky grin and rumply beard. Imagine him standing guard outside British homes for generations, sometimes fishing away with his hopeless rod (he never gets a bite), but, more often than not, just standing there, symbolising the cheerfully stoic nature of the faintly low-brow charm which underpins much of our social grace and national appeal. Go Gnomy!
In recent years, symbols of a similar style have vanished from our class radar. Those three famously flying geese have gone south, the unaccountably blue Chinese lady has wiped her eyes and vanished. But the gnome has endured in our affections, even though no one's quite sure why.
We Brits rarely examine the roots of our emotions; we tend to punch favoured people and call them smelly. Just so, the gnome has simply been there for us, a part of what makes us what we are, lord love the little mite.
Well, not any more. In a lightning-bolt revelation of the kind that brings marriage-guidance sessions to a stunned halt ("I'm gay!"), the new truth about our gnomic relationship has been revealed with terrible, rejective clarity. Many of us, particularly if we've got a bob or two, have gone off him.
In fact, according to a survey for Propertyfinder.com, the very existence of gnomes in the garden is enough to dissuade many people from buying a house.
One glance and they're off with a roar of low-sulphur diesel and a cruel departing honk. The gnome has become a badge, a symbol, a mark of mediocrity and lowered social standing that fewer of us are happy to embrace or even countenance.
Once, we may have chuckled at his static antics, but now the joke's palled and we shun the very thought of siding with those who might find him funny, because we're not one of them. Oh no. We've got pampas grass in the yard and a dog called Boutros Boutros-Gali.
So illogical, so unfair. It's not even smart, and if you're thinking of jumping headlong into the gnome-trap yourself, you would do well to reconsider.
Personally, I love the old boy. I'd like to punch his arm. And it's not just the fact that he provides material for loads of really great jokes – gnome alone, gnome on the range, done gnoming – which makes the winter evenings positively fly by in our house.
Nor is it the fact that the gnome's ancestry is, as it happens, impeccably aristocratic. Sir Charles Isham of Northampton brought the first of the creatures to this country in 1847 to decorate a rockery at Lamport Hall, his country pile.
The last remaining gnome from this batch still stands guard indoors in a glass case. You may visit him if you wish, and, if he could talk, he would tell about life in the old days in Germany, where miners believed he brought good luck. He might add that the very word "gnome" is said to stand for Guarding Naturally Over Mother Earth, or even admit coyly that he's insured for a million pounds. Smart enough for you?
As with so many pleasures nowadays, gnomes are rooted in the special, but have spread; and what some people object to is the loss of exclusivity. This is the real point of this rant on behalf of a scrap of plastic, a blob of terracotta.
It's the badge-conscious shabbiness of those who turn up their noses at signs alone that I can't bear.
At least a family with gnomes in the garden know that they have a garden to care for – and usually they do. At least a guarding gnome means there's something indoors well worth guarding: a sense of pride in property. I'd certainly buy a second-hand car from a man with gnomes because his attention to detail – or irony, it doesn't matter – would be unquestionable.
And who, in the end, is more shallow? The family with a gnomic garden reflecting grand artistic heritage and money to spare for frippery? Or Mr and Mrs Snooty-Boots of Larch Avenue whose social identity is threatened by a goblin grin?
The gnome thing is another example of twisted British values that pin too much on image and not enough on reality. Free the gnome from such prejudice!


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Editor's NoteThe Master Control Program is booted back up in this revamped TRON continuation that sees the return of original star Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, the brilliant computer programmer whose disappearance leads his son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), to search for him in and out of the computer world. Original director and co-writer Steven Lisberger produces the new film, which is helmed by commercial director Joseph Kosinski. James Frain, Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett, and Michael Sheen also star, with Bruce Boxleitner returning as Alan Bradley and Tron, the heroic protagonist of the original film.
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Why the Difference of Sexes, Part 2
Interview With German Theologian Jutta Burggraf
PAMPLONA, Spain, SEPT. 28, 2004 (Zenit) - Being a woman or being a man is not exhausted by being a mother or father, says German theologian Jutta Burggraf.
A professor of dogmatic theology and ecumenical theology at the University of Navarre, Burggraf offers, in Part 2 of this interview with us, some guidelines to interpret the "Letter to Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Collaboration of Man and Woman in the Church and in the World," published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Part 1 of this interview appeared Monday.
Q: Can you explain why to be woman and to be man is not exhausted by being mother or father?
Burggraf: Man and woman are distinguished, obviously, in the possibility of being father or mother. Procreation is ennobled in them by the love in which it develops and, precisely, because of its connection with love, it has been put by God at the center of the human person as a joint task of the two sexes.
However, if we say that the possibility of begetting cannot be the only reason for the difference between the sexes, we must not focus exclusively on the ordinary paternity, although the latter, undoubtedly, demonstrates a special initiative and immense confidence in God.
But to be woman, to be man, is not exhausted by being, respectively, mother or father. Considering the specific qualities of woman, the recent letter speaks opportunely of the "genius of woman." It constitutes a specific basic attitude which corresponds to the physical structure of woman and is fomented by her.
In fact, it does not seem preposterous that the intense relationship that woman has with life can generate in her some particular dispositions. Just as during pregnancy a woman experiences a unique closeness toward a new human being, so also her nature favors the interpersonal meeting with those around her.
The "genius of woman" can be translated in a delicate sensibility given the needs and requirements of others, in the ability to be aware of and to understand possible inner conflicts. She can be identified, cautiously, with a special capacity to show love in a concrete way, to receive the other.
But, obviously, not all women are gentle and unselfish. Not all of them show their talent toward solidarity.
It is not rare that, in specific cases, a man has more sensibility to receive, to take care of, than the majority of women. And he might be more serene than his wife.
In this connection, it is real progress that the recent letter not only reminds us that feminine values are human values, but it distinguishes finely between "woman" and the values that are more proper to her, and "man" and the values more proper to him.
That is, every person must and can develop also the talents of the opposite sex although, generally, it can be a little bit more difficult for him or her.
Q: So there is also masculine genius?
Burggraf: Where there is a "feminine genius" there must be a "masculine genius." What is the specific talent of man? He has by nature a greater distance in respect to concrete life. He is always "outside" the process of gestation and birth, and can only have a part in them through his wife.
Precisely that greater distance can facilitate for him a more serene action to protect life, and ensure its future. It can lead him to be a real father, not only in the physical dimension, but also in the spiritual sense.
It can lead him to be an imperturbable friend, sure and trustworthy. But it can lead him also, in another direction, to a certain disinterest in concrete and daily things, which, unfortunately, has been favored in the past by a unilateral education.
Q: Why is there this opposition between sex and gender?
Burggraf: The letter emphasizes extremist ideologies of gender which deny sexual identity, because the influence of these theories has increased markedly over the past decade.
While the term "sex" refers to nature and implies two possibilities, the term "gender" arises from the field of linguistics where three variations are recognized: masculine, feminine and neuter.
In this case the differences between man and woman do not correspond -- with the exception of the obvious morphological differences -- to a nature "given" by the Creator, but are mere cultural constructions, "made" according to the role and stereotypes that are assigned to the sexes in each society.
According to these premises it is emphasized, and rightfully so, that in the past the differences were excessively accentuated, which led to situations of discrimination toward women.
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I'm going to assume you have at least passing familiarity with the story, as it is required reading in a lot of high schools and colleges. But just as a refresher, it's the tale of the Greek strategist Odysseus, on his journey home from the Trojan War back to his kingdom of Ithaca. He manages to piss off the god of the ocean, and what should be a fairly simple journey turns into a 10 year odyssey, full of monsters, dangers, and our hero's trademark cunning to escape both. Notable episodes include his encounters with a cyclops, the witch Circe, the Sirens, the monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis.
Now, this story has literally been around for thousands of years, so it's been through a LOT of different covers and translations. Some of them are meh, some of them are really good, and some of them are awful. Trying to pick past covers to put together a brief montage was like trying to pick favorite stars, there are that many. So I'm going to get right down to business. Here is my cover concept for this Greek classic:
Cover elements:
I favor photo-based covers, as you might have noticed, which proved a particular challenge with this cover. There aren't exactly any photos from Ancient Greece lying around. There are, however, lots and lots of sculptures and stone carvings from the Greek age, which is why I ultimately went with the textured stone look. I think it helps convey both the age of the story and the gritty nature of Odysseus' adventures (let's be honest, there's quite a bit of death and mayhem in the Odyssey – Greek gods didn't pull their punches when they were pissed off). This is also why I used a roughened typeface for the title, to tie in with the stonework.
The color scheme of ocean blue and grey seemed a natural choice for a story with so much focus on voyaging over the sea. The ship graphic was included to also convey the idea of a voyage and adventure. The tentacles were included to pay homage to Scylla and the story's many other monsters. The choice of a clean typeface for the author and subtitle was to give a bit of contrast to all the roughness.
Overall, I'm pleased with how it turned out. I think the photographs are a nice modern touch, while the textures and coloring evoke ancient ocean.
What do you think? Did I hit the bullseye as Odysseus would have?
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It's the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who was born on Mars, raised by Martians and then returned to Earth in his adulthood. Seeing all of the customs and behaviors and politics and nonsense of humanity filtered through his outsider's eyes makes for a very thought-provoking read. Michael, though human, has some otherworldly powers and a deep connection with all living organisms. He also has some unconventional ideas about love, relationships, money, religion, and death. Depending on your mood or mindset, you might find it beautiful or weird. Either way, Stranger in a Strange Land is considered a classic of literary science fiction. It also won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1962, and was the first science fiction novel to make the NYT's bestseller list.
Sum up done, time for the good stuff! Just for reference, here are some of the covers this book has sported in the past:
The one on the far left is the most common/famous cover. And there are lots of sci-fi appropriate illustrations across the lot. I'm not sure what's going on with the green one. And the one on the far right, while interesting and of a more literary fiction feel, I don't think conveys anything specific to this story. But you can see, they pretty much all have a 60's or pulp sci-fi feel. Which is fair, since the book was originally published in the 1960's. But I thought it was time for an update.
Here is my cover concept for this sci-fi classic:
Cover elements:
I choose to go photo-based, because a) I like photo-based covers! and b) I'm not an illustrator or painter or anything, so Creative Commons photos are my main source of usable image material for fun projects like these. A type-only cover is also certainly an option, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go with this redo.
Since Michael is the main character, the 'Stranger' referenced in the title, and definitely the driving force behind the entire book, I wanted to include a representation of him on the cover. A lit profile silhouette like this is clear enough to convey that it's a guy, and at that large cover-spanning size that he is an important character. But it's still vague enough not to conflict with the book description of hair color, eye color, etc. (which to be honest, I didn't remember as it's been awhile since I read this).
I also wanted to convey that this was in the sci-fi genre, but not in the lurid manner of some of the old covers. It is what I would consider high-concept science fiction, and I don't think the previous covers did justice to that. Another consideration: a dark background would work best given the silhouette I wanted to use. A sparse starry sky and the small planet are clear references to space that accomplish all of that nicely.
Overall, I'm really happy with how this turned out. And, if I do say so myself, if I saw a cover like this in store, I'd pick it up to read more.
What do you think? A modern reimagining that does the story proud?
*Ok, it's actually a photo of a blood moon because it turns out there aren't a lot of photos of Mars on Creative Commons. Whatevs. It works.
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I refined my package offerings more so that they cover all of my most common design requests (and the types of projects I love doing!). I'm focusing on three areas: Identity Design, Print Design, and WordPress. I go into more detail over on the packages page, as far as what is included in each one and the differences between them. The new setup also gives a rough idea of the investment required if you'd like to work with me. I debated with myself about whether or not to publish my prices, but in the long run I think it saves time for both potential clients and me to know right away whether I'm in their budget range or not. I know I do excellent work, and am confident that my prices are where they should be. Ideally it will discourage those more interested in a lowball price than quality design work. And for those ready to invest in design for their business, the details hopefully answer a lot of the questions you might have.
A new year, a new accountant, and a new… sales tax? Womp, womp. Way less exciting. It turns out that graphic design services are taxable in the state of Texas. So, if you are also located in Texas, all invoices from here on out will include sales tax on services provided. If you're outside of Texas, no worries, you are not affected by this change.
And now for the really exciting bit: over the holiday break, my boyfriend of many years became my fiancé! We are officially engaged, and plan on getting married later this year. There will be a sizable out of office period when the wedding and honeymoon roll around. It won't be for a few months at least, and I'll certainly give any active clients as much advanced notice as I can. But wait, there's more! Since I'll be taking his last name, there will be quite a few changes around here, too. I'll be moving to a new domain name (this one will forward there, don't worry), adjusting my logo, maybe even doing a DBA as a studio instead of just my name. I haven't quite decided yet, but major changes along those lines are coming. And to answer some non-business questions about this: I was completely surprised, at the Grand Canyon, I love my ring, and yes, I'll be designing my own wedding invites (and am super excited about that!).
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I've removed my phone number from my website.
Yes, this site. My business site. And it's precisely to help my business that I did so.
I am a one-woman operation here, which means I handle everything: emails, invoicing, accounting, bidding, social media, etc. Plus, you know, all of the actual design work. In the space of any given day, I already have a lot on my plate. Having my concentration and work flow interrupted by unscheduled and unnecessary phone calls is both an annoyance and a waste of my valuable time. And, sadly, I get too many of those. Marketers, sure, despite being on the Do Not Call list. I've even gotten a few prank calls from what I assume (hope?) are bored teenagers. But mostly just people who didn't take the time to read my website, asking me about services that I clearly state I don't offer. Or people (that I've never worked with) who have a last minute project they expect me to drop everything to take on, for a laughably small budget or "exposure" – ha!
In short: people who don't respect my time.
And I am officially fed up with it. I'm not a phone person to begin with, so maybe this piques my ire more than most. But there's also no reason I need to put up with it. Cold calls aren't exactly a big source of clientele for me. I'm an online girl. So I'm not losing out by doing this. I'd be losing out if I didn't do this. Aside from putting me in a bad mood, wasting time on nonsense calls hurts the efficiency of my business, and the quality of work I provide to my actual clients.
Those actual clients, by the way, all have or will be provided with my phone number. I'm not cutting out the phone completely. I'm still happy to talk to current and past clients about our projects, and for potential clients I'm happy to schedule a time – via email! – to talk on the phone and then provide my number. It's not an interruption then, it's relevant and part of my workflow.
So if you go looking for my phone number on this site and can't find it, that's why. And if you actually need to talk to me, you either already have my number (hello, current client!) or can email me to set up a time.
And if that bothers you, you can move right along to a different designer's site, as this is how I'm doing business from now on.
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One-person business sites not having a listed phone number: deal-breaker or no?
For the record, I also have all notifications turned off on my phone, so I don't get interrupted by tweets or anything like that either. So if it takes me a bit to answer your tweet, it's because I'm working!
And no, my phone doesn't actually have a cord. It's a metaphor, people.]]>


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Aaron Laffey and five relievers combined on a six-hitter as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles for the second straight game, 4-0 on Tuesday night. Laffey (4-6) allowed five singles in 5 2-3 innings and won his first game since Aug. 5. He had been winless in his previous six starts. He neither walked nor struck out a batter. Baltimore began the day 1 1-2 games behind first-place New York in the AL East. The Yankees played at Minnesota in a game that started later. The Orioles had won seven of their previous nine. They had not been shut out since Aug. 3. Joe Saunders (2-3) pitched 6 1-3 innings, allowing four runs - three earned - and 11 hits. He struck out two and walked none. In the first inning, the Blue Jays took a 1-0 lead on Yan Gomes' RBI single that scored Brett Lawrie, who led off with a single. Rajai Davis beat out an infield single with two outs in the fourth and scored on Adeiny Hechavarria's double. In the seventh, Colby Rasmus and Edwin Encarnacion h...
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Updated: 05/20/2009 - Mark Parkinson is expected to make his first decision about an abortion measure this week, when he takes up the Legislature's budget-balancing bill.
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Originally posted by brad0 View PostThe netbooks where this mattered were/are using 32-bit processors so you can't use said ABI on those systems. Systems where there are 64-bit processors this isn't an issue. Its work to create an ABI for no real world use and then to have to maintain the compiler/toolchain for something very few people will use.
Why would you waste your time doing this? It helps no one and only complicates the distro.
Originally posted by s_j_newbury View PostAt least on the Gentoo front, a major roadblock is getting complete multi-abi coverage so that it's possible to emerge a system with x32, then use LP64 ABI as appropriate for a given application, or of course x86 where there is only a x86 package availability, with all dependencies resolved automatically.
We were pretty much there with the previous multilib-portage effort, but since that wasn't adopted upstream there's been quite a lot of work modifying ebuilds to integrate support, which is what I've been working on for the last month or so. Since I now have Steam working without any emul-linux-x86 binaries, I'm going to start pushing my changes out to ebuild maintainers, so hopefully this will be landing soon. Once that's done I'm going to have another attempt at bringing up x32 as a fully supported ABI, I probably need to have another look at llvm/clang...
Well if counting years in the field adds to credibility, I've been around this stuff since the late seventies. By the way that should have zero impact on credibility.
There's no magic about how x32 works exactly.
The only way that x32 could be slower than regular 32bit or x86_64 is some system calls that require conversion of the pointers passed.
Plus this set of pure 32bit, 64bit data/32bit pointer and pure 64bit isn't anything new.
When it's all said and done, you must get some performance improvement, except for some very rare cases that uses almost no pointers.
You don't need benchmarks to show that in average there will be 5-10% performance gains.
I see way too many people criticize x32, but the way they word their messages, it looks like they don't really understand every (positive) impact x32 will have on performance.
They try to frame x32 as only useful for embedded systems where RAM might be limited, showing they don't really understand (and don't care to understand it correctly).
People forget that the main issue isn't saving RAM, but improving cache hits by reducing the size of data structures, reducing per function stack usage (also to improve cache hits), and reduce RAM bandwidth usage.
If this x32 thing isn't so great, then please get just one hardcore linux kernel developer or some other developer known to care about performance to say x32 isn't a big deal, please.
I'm not a kernel developer, but I'm a performance person that started using computers back in the 8 bit times, and learned assembly before C, while (I'm almost sure) most people saying: "this isn't a big deal, prove me it's useful" are much younger guys that are used to be lazy about performance. Sorry about the prejudice, I would like people give their technical credentials before criticizing.
I have 30 years of computer experience, how much do you have ?
Depending on your experience you just know what will work, what won't, and what needs testing. x32 is one of those cases that I know it will work (be worth it). And I'm yet to see a LOGICAL explanation why it might not work (not be worth it).
I remember running Microsoft C compiler from floppy disks circa 1990. We had small (16/16bit), medium (16 bit code pointers, segmented data pointers, code limited to 64KB, data could use all memory), large models (segmented data and code pointers), that was a hack... Took a few minutes to compile a plain hello world program. medium model had data pointers different size of code pointers, very ugly. And memory segments, that was a PITA.
x32 is a plain linear model, pure C/C++ core can be recompiled in many cases with no changes at all. And if changes are needed they are tiny (assuming the code is already compatible with both 32-bit / x86_64, essentially it's the 32-bit #ifdef with 64 timestamps, everything else is the same 32bit code).
I'm very aware it's a difficult, maybe even lost cause vs just using only x86_64. But it's a lot cause because people decided it's not worth, not because it's difficult to do at all ! It's 99.9% about people wanting to do it, rather than oh it's going to take days of work per package, it's more like minutes of work per package (assuming no __asm code blocks or .S files involved).
But I don't agree with the it's a hack statement. There's no segmentation involved.
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My problem is with assumption most software doesn't use 64bit(63bits). Once ASR is in place, x32 will interfere with it and reduce the window to 4GiB, no? So, for embedded, sure; but aren't they okay with 32bit anyway? 64bit timestamps are another issue. And more will come, matter of time. I sense its similar hack to offset:segment with 286, instead of just moving to larger register globally. Integer over follows have a funny effect of receiving 2 billions of dollars for no apparent reason , I can imagine an embedded terminal implemented. Not that I am going to hold you off, breaking things is always fun.
Your making assumptions that show me you don't know the basic concepts required to truly understand x32 (and its implications).
Bottom line, you're mixing things that aren't x32 specific, that apply to both 32bit and x86_64.
I think you need a recap of what x32 is.
32bit runs in a older 32bit mode of x86 cpus.
x86_64 runs in 64bit mode, which expands all registers to 64bits, plus double the general register profile.
Regardless of the above, gcc / g++ even under 32bit has 64bit integer data types, with a full range of operations. Most operations will generate multiple instructions, but that's only a performance hit, functionality is unaffected (except for atomicity, but that's a direct consequence of multiple instructions).
x32 is x86_64 with only one difference, 32 bit pointers, every other feature of x86_64 is there.
But at the C / C++ language level, you're able to do signed / unsigned 64bit integer math in all 3 modes.
Since x86_64 uses a 64bit timestamp to represent seconds since Jan, 1st 1970, Linus decided x32 would use that same format (avoiding the 2037 time stamp overflow).
Bottom line, is per the usual, there is a lot of people bashing x32 that just don't really understand how in works (specially under the hood).
No offense, but if you understood under the hood, you wouldn't be demanding benchmarks, just because there no set backs. It has everything good about 32bit and everything good about x86_64 performance wise. The only hit is that system calls must get 32 bit pointers and convert to 64 bit (a trivial operation, that would only be even measurable on apps that execute very little work of its own between system calls, other benefits overwhelm this hit).
Like I said, c / c++ code that works properly in both 32bit and x86_64 modes and don't use assembly should run under x32 with almost no source changes, also very tiny build environment changes.
Why I don't need no stinking x32 benchmarks to know it will be better:
1 - All pointers that need to be stored in the stack (auto allocation), global (static allocate) variables or data structures benefits from x32 vs x86_64 (with the only exception of register variables, but even then, since there are more registers, you can keep more variables in the cpu's registers), they use half the address space which benefits the L1/L2/L3 caches. There zero chance of this being worse than either 32bit or x86_64, except for system call overhead, which is negligible. There's a significant performance benefit for stack allocated pointers, stack allocated structs (with pointers), pointers passed as function arguments.
2 - The doubling of the register profile speeds up everything versus 32bit, zero chance of any losses here, cause pointers don't double in size (the downsize of x86_64). Since the C int is still 32bit (in all 3 cases) 32bit variables don't become 64bit. x32 longs are 64 bit like x86_64 (32bit in 32bit).
3 - All x86_64 special tricks are in x32. The system clock can be read without a system call. Less CPU instructions are used for function calls. Function calls with few parameters use register only calling convention.
Like I said, even with 30 years of programming experience (half of it doing C level stuff) I wrote very little assembly code. I know this stuff cold because I'm ultra curious and a performance nut.
If this isn't clear, you don't need benchmarks, you need to learn assembly language and cpu architectures properly.
It's a pity we don't have a magazine like BYTE was circa 1990, that explained this low level stuff extremely well.
macpacheco, just to clear up some confusion on your part:
x32 is ILP32; this means Int, Long and Pointer are 32 bits long. 64 bit C operations will make use of the full 64 bit registers but code utilising ints and longs will only use 32 bit types, just like with x86-32. Code should never depend on the size of non-explicitly sized types, where it does is a bug and was one of the most common problems encountered as 64 bit systems became more common. Fortunately, this means most such bugs have already been long fixed.


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