Re: Version after Version

"Maarten Wiltink" <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> I tend to do my operations one method call at a time, not MxN bits at a
> time.


Are you saing that when you need to, say, add 1000 numbers in an array, thay
you do this:

for i := 0 to High(anArray) do
AddNextNumber(anArray, i);


That would be insane.
I am sure you are not *that* stupid.

What you say is nonsensical. Every time you do more than on 32-bit operation
on an array for example, you can make things much faster by loading 64 bits
at a time from memory (as my dual-cpu, dual-core 275 machine does),
operating on those 64 bits and write them back in one operation, to 64-bit
wide memory.

When you can't imagine that applications do operations on data structures in
memory, when your own applications don't do such a thing, merely do a few
"method calls" here & there and for the rest waiting for user input, I feel
for you.

But please don't think that all desktop software is like yours. Most isn't.
Some of the software I recently bought is ISObuster (or something). It
extracts ISO images (a kind of decompressing). This benefits greatly from
64-bits. Other software I bought is
ASPack, it is an EXE compressor I use. This would benefit greatly from
64-bits. Other software I bought is Ghost install, to make installs of my
1.5 GB install package. The compression engine would benefit greatly from 64
bits.
Other software I bought is Absolute Database. I use ZIP compression (LZW) of
some fields in my 2 GB of databases. This would benefit greatly from
64-bits.

Etcetera, etcetera. You truly haven't got the slightest clue what you're
talking about. EVERYTHING benefits GREATLY from 64 bits.
I want to go as far as prediction that a software company has no future if
they do not start the transition to 64 bits NOW.


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