Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:01:21 11/26/99
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On November 26, 1999 at 03:28:22, Paulo Soares wrote: >I knew that Genius6.5 is 16 Bits, but I thought that Shreder 4 and Nimzo2000 >was 32 Bits. BTW, is it true that a program written in 32 Bits is 2x faster >than the same program writing in 16 Bits? The short answer to this is "no". All that happens is that the width of data contained within registers doubles. This means that you can manipulate larger numbers. You can also address more data with a single register, as opposed to having to use an index register and a segment register. This is more efficient, typically, but you won't go twice as fast if you were careful before, which of course everyone was. bruce
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