Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:28:31 10/01/98
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On October 01, 1998 at 01:58:58, Georg Langrath wrote: >If 32 bits are more effective than 16, does this go on? I mean are 64 bits >better than 32, 128 bits better then 64 and so on. What is the optimum? All things being equal, you want to be able to more more bits at a time. I don't know what your interest in this is, so it's hard to answer your specific case. If you are an end-user, don't worry about it. If you see an add for a program that says it's a 32-bit program, fine. All this means is that it was written after 1995 or so, these days. If you are a programmer, and you want to write a chess program, you'll have to take the type of processor into account when you make decisions about how to architect your program. 64-bit processors are fun for chess because you can represent some aspects of a chess position using one bit per square, or 64 bits total, and you can move these things around in one shot, rather than moving it in two hunks, like you have to do on a 32-bit processor. Certainly not required, though. The compiler is your friend, and even in cases where you have to do 64-bit operations on a 32-bit machine, it can work alright. bruce
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