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Originally Posted by gan
I'm not saying that 64 bit is necessarily better and faster in all cases, but all the benchmarks/tests i have seen so far for WinRAR shows that the 64 bit edition is basically faster. These benchmarks show that 64 bit OS with 64 bit WinRAR is faster for all operations compared to 64 bit OS with 32 bit WinRAR, but 64 bit OS and 32 bit WinRAR is faster than 32 bit OS and 32 bit WinRAR which seems to be the slowest combination.
Not sure why the results differ for this test performed by PA.
-gan
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maybe compression benchmarks, but for extractions, it is definitely slower... there is nothing special with these benchmarks, they can be done by anyone.
Basically due to nature of design, 64bit extraction has a lot of redundancy compared to 32bit. There is nothing extra there to gain speed, unlike during the compression.
So you come into situation that 32bit PowerArchiver is significantly faster than 64bit WinRar v4 under same 64bit Windows 7 computer :-)
Of course, PA is always faster anyway due to super duper optimizations our Eugene used for unrar
