[CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

ken gebser at mousecar.com
Wed Aug 24 14:54:16 UTC 2011


On 08/24/2011 01:59 AM John R Pierce wrote:
> On 08/23/11 9:21 PM, ken wrote:
>> I haven't looked up and compared the lists of instructions
>> on 32- vs. 64-bit CPUs, but generally the bigger processors have more,
>> and more sophisticated, instructions.  This means, e.g., that instead of
>> taking 20 steps to do a calculation on a 32-bit CPU, it might be done in
>> 5 steps on a 64-bit.
> 
> except, this is almost entirely wrong.

LOL

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