David Fox wrote: > Personally, I don't see a need to go 128 bit on a main cpu unless you > have a desire to count and enumerate every elementary particle in the > known universe, without a) running out of RAM, or b) spilling the > content into a multiregister add/adc pair. :) >
Well, with 128 bits one avoids the year 4,292,277,026,596 problem[0]. It's nice to plan ahead, you know. [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_bug -- Big book, big bore. -- Callimachus Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
