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Subject: Re: Oooh, good 64-bit idea

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 13:14:28 06/20/02

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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?

-Tom

• Re: Oooh, good 64-bit idea Dann Corbit 13:27:03 06/20/02
  • HP gcc switch to settle this whole thing Tom Kerrigan 14:03:55 06/20/02
    • Re: HP gcc switch to settle this whole thing Dann Corbit 14:42:30 06/20/02
      • Re: HP gcc switch to settle this whole thing Tom Kerrigan 14:58:20 06/20/02
        • Re: HP gcc switch to settle this whole thing Robert Hyatt 15:24:14 06/20/02
          • Re: HP gcc switch to settle this whole thing Tom Kerrigan 15:49:01 06/20/02
            • Re: HP gcc switch to settle this whole thing Robert Hyatt 17:50:13 06/20/02
            • Re: HP gcc switch to settle this whole thing Eugene Nalimov 16:25:06 06/20/02
        • Re: HP gcc switch to settle this whole thing Dann Corbit 15:18:39 06/20/02

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