Wednesday, February 26, 2003

Sweeney on 64-bit Computing -- 5:57 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I saw on several sites that Epic's Tim Sweeney made a post on Slashdot concerning Intel's comments on 64-bit computing. It seems like they aren't planning on putting out a consumer 64-bit processor until potentially the end of the decade. Here's a snip:

Intel's claims are wholly out of touch with reality. On a daily basis we're running into the Windows 2GB barrier with our next-generation content development and preprocessing tools. If cost-effective, backwards-compatible 64-bit CPU's were available today, we'd buy them today. We need them today. It looks like we'll get them in April.

Any claim that "4GB is enough" or that address windowing extensions are a viable solution are just plain nuts. Do people really think programmers will re-adopt early 1990's bank-swapping technology?

C'mon, Tim, tell us how you really feel. :)

The Master comments: I know if I could run a system that could easily access more than 4 GB of ram, I would vote for that system when we do our next database server upgrade at work. Being able to host your entire database in RAM is awesome. I'm just trying to imagine the query access speed right now.

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