On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:43:32AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg
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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" :-)
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Thomas Wouters