Subj : Re: Microsoft Win10 ARM
To : Nightfox
From : Vk3jed
Date : Wed Oct 31 2018 10:41 am
-=> On 10-29-18 09:48, Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Vk> That may have better luck, depending on how good the emulation is in terms
Vk> of both speed and accuracy. Time will tell. But will they get it out in
Vk> time, before all the popular Windows software goes 64 bit?
Ni> I'm wondering if a lot of Windows software will still have a 32-bit
Ni> option for a while, since 64-bit Intel/AMD processors can run 32-bit
Ni> software without much (if any) performance impact.
Hard to tell. The tipping point will be when memory requirements start to
exceed a few GB for a single instance, then 64 bit will become highly
advantageous, same if we see a lot of common software manipulating lots of huge
numbers or data structures.