Hey, aren't you the one who said, a long-long, time ago, that said all of
the worlds computational needs can be handled by these few ( < 5
worldwide ) machines.
gat
BTW my cache ( 2mb@2ns cycle ) on my alpha is much larger than my
original 64k main memory ( @400ns cycle ) on my 8080 box. Nowadays we are
getting near to having gig's of main memory on a personal basis.
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Patrick Spingys]
> > I think in the future Sun brings out a new VM, which is written for
> > 64-bit machines. I don't said, that it is usefull for now, to write
> > anything like this. I have a Pentium, so my computer is "only"
> > 32-bit, too. But I think for the future it is good to begin in this
> > time a project which creates an Java-like for 64-bit machines. And
> > because the most people of now have an 32-computer,
>
> I do not understand why anyone want to make programs use 64 bit values
> if they don't need it. That would only make programs larger and
> slower.
>
> You seem to assume 32-bit machines are slower then 64-bit machines.
> There is no such general rule. I am not convinced that it will give
> any performance gain in the short to medium time scale. It is like
> increasing the jump range of a branch instruction - ignoring the fact
> that most braches are local and only needs a really small jump range.
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