Well, there would be speed advantages by offering huge amounts of
addressable memory space. Instant track bouncing, no pre-loaded caching,
instantiations of plugins that simply sit there waiting without crapping out
a cpu. Little things like that! g

Isn't it ridiculous that what was perceived as a major advantage just a
couple of years ago is now a time waster! g

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Scott Dorsey wrote:

But address space is the least of your worries.

On the contrary, from my time in architecture years ago I'm
pretty certain that the movement to 64 bit addressing and
the attendant enhancements to storage management and access
is the sine qua non for the next level of performance in
database management and transaction processing applications
which is where the bulk of business and the bulk of computer
profit is still entrenched. The direct addressability of
huge amounts of RAM is almost entirely what's driving it.
See:

http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0...a=40723,00.asp

For audio it offers almost no perceivable benefit. For
calculation we just don't need it and wider busses for the
more rapid movement of blocks of data don't require 64 bit
integer architectures. Busses wider than 32 bits have been
around for a very long time for the purposes of higher
memory bandwidth.


Bob
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simpler."

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