On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Strake <strake...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
If you're doing cryptography and physical simulation, computation bound stuff, why not set up a 64-bit CPU server? I've got one at work, all you should need to do is get the 64-bit binaries on your fileserver. John
