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Subject: Re: How many bits are mos efficient?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:12:57 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?
>
>Georg


Easy question.  The optimum word size is the word size that moves around
the exact number of bits you need.  IE in crafty, everything is based on
64 bit words, so 64 bit machines are more effecient for me.  128 would
buy nothing for me without some re-design...



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