Re: Version after Version

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:54:02 +0200, "Frank de Groot"
<franciad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:43636f02.109826154@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>> I doubt that Maarten would do that
>> - but if they are 4 byte integers there would be a /loss/ using a 64
>> bit chip

>Baloney.

>Even MMX (64-bits, as you are well aware) does two 32-bit additions at a
>time.
>If you have a hundred 32-bit additions, you can do them twice as fast using
>MMX, by doing 50 times two additions at a time.
>I don't see what so hard to understand about this.

Your arguments seem to snake around.

You appear to think that we should abandon the Delphi compiler and
find another one optimized for 64 bits.

You seem to have some very odd ideas about how compilers and
processors actually work.

Processors only do what they are told to do, adding 57 new multi media
targeted instructions and increasing the size of the cache to 32,000
bytes and adding a glorified REP instruction will make code written
to take advantage of such novelties run faster
- simply because microcode runs faster than external code

That has nothing to do with the number of address lines on the CPU

Anyway, most CPUs are choked by the speed of the bus


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