Why 64 bit?

Why 64 bit?

Posted Sep 14, 2006 18:57 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Why 64 bit? by khim
Parent article: What you should (and shouldn't) expect from 64-bit Linux (Linux.com)

OpenSSL doesn't do it, as far as I know (it can't; many critical-path
things are macro-expanded). Instead, distributors use glibc's hwcap
mechanism to select appropriately-compiled OpenSSL libraries for the
hardware at dynamic link time. (This is especially useful on e.g. SPARC,
because of SPARCv7's lack of integer multiply instructions.)

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