POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Real benefit of a 64 bit Pov binary on a 64 bit CPU in a 64 bit opsys?: Re: Real benefit of a 64 bit Pov binary on a 64 bit CPU in a 64 bit opsys?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Real benefit of a 64 bit Pov binary on a 64 bit CPU in a 64 bit opsys? : Re: Real benefit of a 64 bit Pov binary on a 64 bit CPU in a 64 bit opsys?		Server Time 1 Aug 2024 04:10:56 EDT (-0400)

From: Warp
Date: 1 Aug 2006 17:31:26
Message: <44cfc82e@news.povray.org>

Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> both 32 and 64 bits CPUs use 64 bits FPUs

  Actually Intel (and compatible) processors use 80-bit floating point
numbers internally. I don't know why, but they just do.

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                                                          - Warp

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