https://www.bcastell.com/categories/technical-articles/ Recent content in Technical Articles on Brandon Castellano Hugo en-us Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bcastell.com/posts/word-length-vs-performance/ Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bcastell.com/posts/word-length-vs-performance/ <p>About a year ago, I came across a question on Super User titled &ldquo;How much faster is a 64-bit CPU than a 32-bit CPU?&rdquo;, which was promptly closed and deleted since it&rsquo;s a very open ended question. However, the author (a software developer) referred to benchmarks regarding system performance in 32-bit versus 64-bit. The purpose of this blog post is to investigate how the performance of a computer is affected, as a function of the word length.</p> https://www.bcastell.com/posts/fixing-xanalogtv/ Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bcastell.com/posts/fixing-xanalogtv/ <p>This post is currently being migrated from the old location, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160307233103/http://www.bcastell.com/tech-articles/fixing-the-xanalogtv-screensaver/">click here to view the old one on The Wayback Machine</a>.</p>