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From: John Floren <john@jfloren.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:15:53 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Strake <strake888@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/04/2012, Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 25, 2012 2:27 PM, "Lyndon Nerenberg" <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2012-04-25, at 11:04 AM, Strake wrote:
>>> > Four billion is not enough.
>>>
>>> Not enough what? =A0This 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