Well one thing it is, is Perl that allows you to use the OS memory allocation funtions. This allows you to write Perl programs that can use more than 3GB of addressable RAM. Although you are still limited to 3GB per single data structure. The prequisite is that your operating system and architecture must be 64bit, eg. Sparc/Solaris. By its very nature though your Perl programs become overall a bit slower due to the fact that you must use larger than 32bit to address memory, ie more bits to shuffle for every memory address.
Someone else may be able to provide better details, but that is the gist of it. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:50 PM Subject: perl-64bit > What exactly is 64bit perl? > > Mikko Woodroffe >
