Actually, I think you may be confusing a couple of issues here (or
maybe not). A 64-bit platform operates on data in 64-bit "chunks" at
the instruction set level. When you load a value from main memory
into a register, it is a 64-bit value that you load. When you add two
integers, it is 64-bit integers that you add. How data is stored on
disk is a separate issue.
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Gregory Woodhouse
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but
when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
On Aug 22, 2005, at 9:27 PM, jae kim wrote:
ugghh, I didn't know the other thread was talking
about reading files by M. It must be the longest thread,
69 emails so far. anyway, I stopped reading it after about 20.
i'll wait until all the smart people figure out how to handle
millions of patients worth of data file to convert from
32 bit big-endian to 64 bit little-endian machine.
j.
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