Not all types are words / pointers
Not all types are words / pointers
Posted Sep 5, 2025 16:52 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: Not all types are words / pointers by dave4444
Parent article: The future of 32-bit support in the kernel
> * computation where _base_ data types and 32bit registers are sufficient
It's worth noting that for Arm and x86, the 64-bit instruction sets more than doubled the number of general-purpose registers available to software, and that _usually_ more than offsets the performance hit from the increased pointer size.