Performance of 32 bit application on 64 bit platform

Question

We have a 32 bit application. It is currently running on a 32 VM. If we run the application on a 64 bit OS(Virtual Machine) which supports Intel Virtualization Technology will it run faster? We do not have a 32 bit OS(Virtual Machine) which supports Intel Virtualization Technology.

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Answer 1

The answer is no.

We were running on an instance which had no Hardware virtualization support. Now we tested on a new virtualized system with Intel Virtualization Technology . The Application here is a 32 bit system and the new system was 64 bit OS - Ubuntu. This was run using gcc-multilib support for Ubuntu. There was not a huge performance improvement observed.