Why 64 bit?

Why 64 bit?

Posted Sep 13, 2006 15:29 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)
In reply to: Why 64 bit? by chill633
Parent article: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)

I believe that transcode has some handwritten assembler for some of its
heavy numerical loops that's only used on supported x86-32 processors;
everything else, including both non x86 and x86-64 uses the equivalent
portable versions written in C.

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