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Delerium Hannibal
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Join date: 30 Apr 2004
Posts: 28
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12-15-2005 15:08
I'm just wondering if the lindens plan on implementing a 64 bit enhanced client in the near future?
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Strife Onizuka
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Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
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12-15-2005 19:55
*blinks*, what is there to be gained? what parts of SL currently emulate 64bit math?
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Haravikk Mistral
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Join date: 8 Oct 2005
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12-16-2005 03:32
Other than improved memory support (do you need more than 4gb?!) then it wouldn't be much use except perhaps for particles if these were adapted to take advantage of 64-bits where available.
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Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
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12-16-2005 08:28
The advantage to to the AMD64 instruction set is not that it's 64-bit (though for graphics-intensive programs that would still be useful), but that it has more and larger registers, so the compiler can do a better job of register allocation. That can make a HUGE difference to performance.
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