[luau] Re: PPC vs. X86

[Warren Togami]

Jimen Ching wrote:
> I guess you mean this Power3 processor, which is a 64bit processor.
> 
> I curious as to what kind of applications you have that need a 64bit
> processor.
> 
> --jc

Well, personally I have nothing that requires 64bit, just having Athlon 
64 would allow me to run existing 32bit programs but also optimized 
64bit programs using up to eight 64bit general purpose registers and 
eight floating point registers.  gcc and the Linux kernel is already 
ported to x86_64.

Not just extra speed, some real coolness factor of having 64bit.

LTSP servers may benefit from the ability to cheaply have servers go 
higher than 4GB of RAM.

Warren