On 25/04/2012, Matthew Veety <mve...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 25, 2012 2:27 PM, "Lyndon Nerenberg" <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: >> On 2012-04-25, at 11:04 AM, Strake wrote: >> > Four billion is not enough. >> >> Not enough what? This cat's curiosity is raised. >> > > Numbers obviously.
This. A limit on cryptography, physical simulation, ... which are computation-bound, so bignum arithmetic would be slow. Also logical memory addresses, timestamps, ... Oh, and 8 registers are far too few.