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- From: preston@miranda.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
- Subject: Re: 64 bit Alpha AXP -vs- 32 bit computers
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- References: <1992Nov17.162014.6506@chpc.utexas.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:14:19 GMT
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- kneuper@chpc.utexas.edu (Stephen Kneuper) writes:
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- >I'm trying to figure out why I want to go to a 64 bit machine Alpha
- >AXP system instead of continuing to run 32 bit machines (RS6K, Sun).
- >
- >Outside of the numerical analysis issues,
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- Durn... And after all the nice debate over 32x32 => 64.
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- Another nice use is to speed up bit-wise computation.
- For example, many compilers do lots of data-flow analysis,
- summarizing results in long bit vectors; say, O(1000) bit chunks.
- It's surely faster to AND and OR these things 64 bits at a time,
- not to mention the reduced fetches from cache.
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- Preston Briggs
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