Re: Version after Version

On 27 Oct 2005 06:34:25 -0700, "Marc Rohloff"
<marcrohloff_ng@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>Frank de Groot wrote:
>
>> When written to take advantage of the 64-bit wide data path, applications
>> can become twice as fast."
>
><snip>
>
>Your whole argument is premised on 64 bit operations like
>multiplication. This is a fairly small part of any application. Most
>people don't even use anywhere near the range of 32 bit integers.

Agreed

>I should also add that larger data size implies more paging to disk.

Probably not as there will be much more RAM

However I regard 32 -> 64 as a mega yawn, while 16 -> 32 was a real
must

The sheer horror of frigging ES:SI into flat memory, and the joke was
that at Bus level it was ... flat memory
.

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