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Subject: Re: What does 32 bit engine really mean?

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 07:26:02 09/30/98

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On September 30, 1998 at 05:18:38, Jouni Uski wrote:

>Aha. But for user speed is the most important thing and I think it's not
>automatically increased with all this 32-bit stuf.
>
>Jouni

At least using assembler, you can program more efficiently using the 80386
instruction set and the 32 bit registers.
Furthermore, some CPUs (e.g. K6) execute 32 bit programs faster than 16 bit
programs.



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