[Caml-list] 32-bit is sticking around

["Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>]

Brian Hurt wrote:
>
> Absent the x86, 32-bitters are already out on servers.
> They're on their
> way out on desktops.  But they are still huge in the embedded
> world, and likely to remain so for quite some time.

Saying that 32-bit is "on the way out" on the desktop is tremendous
hyperbole.  What's really happening is soon we'll have a forward path on
the x86 desktop *to* 64-bit.  That ain't here yet in volume, and the
whole point of the AMD architecture is assuring backwards compatibility
for 32-bit.  It's going to be 5 years before 64-bit is happening on the
desktop in any dominant quantity, and 10 years before 32-bit actually
goes away.

To think otherwise is just moooing about what you want to happen rather
than what is actually going to happen and has always happened.  Consider
that only in Longhorn will Microsoft finally kill *16*-bit!

You guys can all dream on about your 64-bit machines.  I mastered 64-bit
on the DEC Alpha in 1996.  Then Compaq and Intel killed it.  I'm still
sad about that, and I hate Intel ASM.  The register poverty *sucks* !
The x87 FPU stack *sucks* !  SSE *sucks* !  Intel has always won by
getting shoddy products to market quickly, never by producing anything
that's any good.  They don't call it "the Wintel hegemony" for nuthin',
it's the hardware equivalent of Microsoft's business model.


Cheers,                         www.indiegamedesign.com
Brand*n Van Every               S*attle, WA

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  int $[tvar0][2*100]; // what the c function needs
  value $[tvar1]; // one int
  value $[tvar2]; // one tuple
  int $[tvar3] // loop control var
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  $[cvar0]=&($[tvar0][0]);
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  $[lvar0] = alloc(2*100, 0 /*NB: zero-tagged block*/ );
  for(int $[tvar3]=0;$[tvar3]<100;$[tvar3]++) {
    $[tvar2] = alloc_tuple(2);
    $[tvar1] = Val_int($[cvar0][0+2*$[tvar3]]);
    Store_field($[tvar2],0,$[tvar1]);
    $[tvar1] = Val_int($[cvar0][1]);
    Store_field($[tvar2],1,$[tvar1+2*$[tvar3]]);
    Array_store($[lvar0],$[tvar3],$[tvar0]);
  }
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