Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:45:05 10/25/01
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On October 25, 2001 at 11:53:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: >For 64 bit development since mid-60's, the driving force has been a push for >more precision in FP (64 bits) and _faster_ execution (because all 32 bit >computers from the 60's had double-precision (64 bit FP) but it was too slow.) As I said in another post, FP has very little to do with the bitiness of a chip. Everybody agrees that x86s are 32-bit, but the P4 has 128-bit wide SIMD registers and double precision FP ALUs. -Tom
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