> The performance benefit of "compactness"> isn't worth (IMO) the breakage that > comes> with it. Under laboratory conditions you> can create 32-bit programs > with AM64. > They just can't (generally) deal with> 31-bit APIs, something > they must use to> get the benefit of 32-bit registers. If> I have to jump > through hoops to break> my 4 GiB address space in half so I can > call 31-bit APIs, all the value leaks away. Hi Alan. What 31-bit APIs do you > think would break ifthey were run as AM64, and why can’t thatcode be updated > to be quadmodal (24/31/32/64)? I would want all the APIs updated prior to > anyonerunning 32-bit programs as AM64. I don’t wantprogrammers to have to > jump through hoops. BFN. Paul.
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