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[–] littul_kitton ago 

I suspect but cannot verify that the move from 32 to 64 did slow things down, but they deepened the pipeline for other reasons and it turned out to actually run in fewer cycles. (At least with respect to the first generation of 32-bit processors. Multiply used to be slow enough that you would manually bit shift when possible, and division was scary slow.)