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On Wednesday 21 June 2006 07:26, Mike Huber wrote: |
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> My understanding is that the major advantage of the 64-bit processors |
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> is for memory address space (>4Gigs of virtual memory space without |
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> PAE, technically 48 bits of address space, which is something like |
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> 128Terrabytes of addressable memory). |
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> There must be some advantage associated with being able to hold two |
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> long ints in one register (or some such relationship there). Anyone |
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> know detailed explanations for situations where 64-bit is more/less |
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> beneficial and why? |
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large numbers? |
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but the 64bit amd extension is really, really helpfull, when you need |
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registers. The additional registers are a huge advantage and can give you a |
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nice boost. |
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Can, not have too - it depends on the task and how the software was compiled. |
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