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The 64-bit questionThe 64-bit questionPosted Jun 22, 2004 14:26 UTC (Tue) by utoddl (subscriber, #1232)Parent article: The 64-bit question A completely different approach would be to have an ld.so that understood SDE (Semantic Dictionary Encoding) -- see Code Generation On-the-Fly: A Key to Portable Software [pdf]. Too bad this little known technology was so closely (and needlessly) tied to Modula-II. A set of SDE libraries wouldn't even need to be recompiled to make the jump from 32 to 64 bits. The SDE browser plug-in implementation made Java look silly in a side-by-side comparison. (Other interesting portable code links.) Oh well, what might have been...
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Worse is better Posted Jun 30, 2004 4:14 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] So many elegant solutions existed but never got widespread use.At least they're good as proof-of-concept :-)
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