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To: Robert Salasidis who wrote (134792)	5/13/2001 12:49:47 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Robert: Point 1: All x86 CPUs with x87 FPUs can handle 64 bit integers. They are handled by the FPU, because it already handles 64 bit mantissas. Point 2: 2^32 bits are already handled by all >=386 CPUs as 2^32 bits is only 512MB. I think you mean >4GB and virtual memory is up to 16TB. Also, under Linux, large files are already supported >4GB for x86 CPUs (upto 2G 1KB blocks = 2TB). Pete

To: Robert Salasidis who wrote (134792)	5/13/2001 1:04:08 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 186894

Robert, re: The advantage of Itanium, and any other 64 bit CPU, is less based on its speed performing standard benchmarks, and more its ability to address large contiguous files > 2^32 bits in length. Netlists with 35+ million gates or very big databases in general can use that big memory space as well.