On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:43:32AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>: > > In any case, this will avoid use the trouble of having to check > > those poly numbers every time Intel decides to bump the register > > width by another factor of two ;-) > This seems unlikely. Why ? Bumping register size doesn't mean Intel expects to use it all as address space. They could be used for video-processing, or to represent a modest range of rationals <wink>, or to help core 'net routers deal with those nasty IPv6 addresses. I'm sure cryptomunchers would like bigger registers as well. Oh wait... I get it! You were trying to get yourself in the historybooks as the guy that said "64 bits ought to be enough for everyone" :-) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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