Strange but true 8.04 updates today May 26[long]

[Martin Laberge]

On Tuesday 27 May 2008 20:03:37 Manuel McLure wrote:
> You don't need a 64-bit processor to do fast 64-bit floating point
> processing. A 64 bit processor will do 64-bit *integer* processing faster
> than a 32-bit processor, but the floating point processor in a 32-bit
> processor handles 64-bit floating point numbers just as well as the one on
> a 64-bit processor. This has been true from the original 80287 (which
> handled *80* bit floating point numbers.) For floating point math, the only
> advantage a 64-bit processor might have is wider memory bandwidth, but if
> you're running the 64-bit processor in 32-bit mode you have that anyway.
> The floating point registers in 32-bit mode are the same width as the ones
> in 64-bit mode.
> 

do you know if the 80 bits floats of the 287 are the same length
today, or are they larger??

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