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Why hasn't 128 bit been introduced yet? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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x86 came out 1978,

21 years after, x64 came out 1999

we are three years overdue for a shift, and I don't mean to arm. Is there just no point to it? 128 bit computing is a thing and has been in the talks since 1976 according to Wikipedia. Why hasn't it been widely adopted by now?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because 2 to the power of 64 is a stupidly big number.

It is many times less than 2 to the power of 32 because you've went ahead and doubled it 32 times to get to 64bits.