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Posted by: Edward Yang (Tuesday 17 May 2005, 4:33 PM)
It is very sad that the AMD-Linux x86-64 initiative is completely hijacked by WinTel in your article. It is thus IMO a biased and incomplete mis-information.
BTW, to the previous comment, making "default" integer size 64-bit won't actually increase the die-size a bit. The ALU and registers in AMD64 chips are already 64-bit capable. It's the OS / compiler / programming langauge that dictates the 32-bit integer size now (and that is not an unreasonable default).
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