At 03:38 PM 10/29/98 +0100, Bojan Antonovic wrote:
>> Why do you believe there will be no 128bit processors? Isn't "more data
>> at a time" always better?
>
>No. Except you know what you want to do with it.
More data isn't always better, but there are cases where it helps. To take an
example that is familiar to us, if you double the data width you make testing
Mersenne numbers more than twice as fast.
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