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Subject: Re: A random thought about bitboards

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:16:06 10/24/01

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On October 24, 2001 at 15:23:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>"numbers" simply don't require such large representations, which wastes a lot
>of bus bandwidth transferring 128 bit values when the majority are 16 bits or
>less...

The only bus bandwidth that's really wasted is in the datapath, which doesn't
really matter. Just because the datapath is 128 bits doesn't mean all memory
transactions have to be.

-Tom



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