POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Need for speed : Re: Need for speed Server Time
7 Sep 2024 13:24:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Need for speed  
From: somebody
Date: 13 Jul 2008 15:34:20
Message: <487a58bc@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote

>   Just because the 16-bit operations are performed on pairs of 8-bit
> registers that doesn't make it any less of a 16-bit operation. The
> crucial thing is that you can perform a 16-bit operation with *one*
> single opcode.

It doesn't work like that. Otherwise, we should call x86 architecture 64
bits, 128 bits or even higher.


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