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Subject: Re: Oooh, good 64-bit idea

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:27:03 06/20/02

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On June 20, 2002 at 16:14:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On June 20, 2002 at 16:08:11, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>We've got a bushel basket of 64 bit machines here, but I am too lazy to fool
>>around with them.  Some of them are basically paperweights (not even plugged in
>>most of the time).  Others are pretty active (The IBM and Alpha machines).
>>
>>We have Silicon Graphics and HP and all sorts of stuff like that.  The older
>>machines don't really impress me much.  I did a few experiments some time back
>>to see how they would perform with chess programs and they don't really knock my
>>socks off.  Slow clock rate.
>
>Doesn't matter how fast they are when you're looking for relative performance
>measurements. Do the man pages for any of the compilers say anything about
>producing backwards-compatible (32-bit) code?

Don't know.  For some of them, all we have is GCC.



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