Re: Will Prescott work on Win64?

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> It was discussed in some newsgroup, maybe this one, that only a very
> small fraction of code needs 64 bits.  You only need 64 bit addressing
> for really large programs (there is always PAE if you need it).

It's arguable that a small fraction of code benefits from 64-bit GPRs, but
pretty much all code will benefit from having double the number of GPRs
(even if used as 32-bit).

S

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