Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 16:02:19 01/03/00
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You will laugh - I really wrote another such program recently (to be more precise, part of it). It is called MS SQL Server, and it is waiting for 64-bit processor and operaing system, as 32 bits is not enough for medium-to-high-end databases. I suspect much more programs will find 64 bits useful than we are thinking now. Eugene On January 03, 2000 at 14:50:22, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On January 03, 2000 at 14:34:47, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>I can assure you that for at least one part of chess program - TBs - 32 bits is >>too small; for 6 man TBs we need at least 33 bits... And while it is doable at >>32-bit machines (or at 16-bit, or even at 8-bit), 64 bits will help a lot. >> >>Eugene > >Yes, but have you written another program like that in the last twenty years? >That is an exceptional case, a program that requires what amounts to an array of >more than 2^32 elements, and a file that can be greater than 2^32 bytes in size. > >Once the tables are built, it is convenient to use 64-bit values to access the >data, but a 64-bit processor is no great win there. > >bruce
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