• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    exactly the same as 64 bit computing, except pointers now take up twice as much ram, and therefore you need mire baseline momory throuput/ more cache, for pretty much no practical benefit. Because we aren’t close to fully using up a 64-bit address space .

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      1 year ago

      Our modern 64 bit processors do use 128 bits for certain vector operations though, don’t they? So there is another aspect apart from address space.