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Extra memory is not the only advantage. In the new AMD/Intel 64 bit processers, the number of registers has been extended from 8 to 16.If compilers could be optimized to take advantage of this, I would expect that certain applications would be sped up significantly.
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Extra memory is not the only advantage. In the new AMD/Intel 64 bit processers, the number of registers has been extended from 8 to 16.
If compilers could be optimized to take advantage of this, I would expect that certain applications would be sped up significantly.