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  Re: Real benefit of a 64 bit Pov binary on a 64 bit CPU in a 64 bit opsys?  
From: Bryan Valencia
Date: 16 Aug 2006 13:03:41
Message: <44e34fed$1@news.povray.org>
My favorite is "Long Boolean" where true="0000000000000001" and
false="0000000000000000"



"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:44d92e04@news.povray.org...
> Fredrik Eriksson <noo### [at] nowherecom> wrote:
> > Not with a Microsoft C++ compiler though. In their infinite wisdom they
> > chose the 64-bit type for both 'double' and 'long double'.
>
>   It's the same wisdom that makes 'long' 32-bit even when compiling to
> a 64-bit binary... (This is the only compiler in the world that I know
> of which does that.)
>
> -- 
>                                                           - Warp


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