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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:41:09 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
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>I'd say this stuff about "64 bits" is total market hype. 64 bit computing
>has been available for over 5 years and it has never made an
>impression (and Sun Microsystems surely tried). The consensus shortly
>after the first 64 bit OSs were put together was that the additional
>potential performance from converting 32 bit software to 64 bit
>software wasn't worth the effort
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What do you mean by 'converted'?
Just make 32-bit code working on a 64-bit machine or truely rewritting it so it
makes real use of the 64-bit architecture?
As an example; All old code ran without problems on the 1st CPUs with MMX.
But only after the programs where rewritten to actually use the MMX instructions
a speed increase could be noticed.
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