[rescue] Re: sunpci note: TWO cards now available
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Jan 30 20:26:13 CST 2002
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:06:20PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> But let's face it...32 bits is just fine for most, if not all, of
> today's applications. Granted 64 or 128 bits is MORE, and MORE is
> BETTER, but how many times have YOU used integers larger than 2^32 in
> your code? I've done a lot of scientific programming...and *I* sure
> haven't.
I rarely have any use for integers that large in scientific usage. However,
they are handy for large disks I'm told, and they certainly are very handy
for ram greater than 4 gigs.
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Joshua D. Boyd
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