vis4valentineWhat would 128 bits computing look like?
rickdgrayThey would look the same really. The word size being 128 instead of 64 doesn’t really change anything about the architecture. It just means the proc’s registers are 128 bits in size, the system bus is 128, each RAM address and data is 128, etc. The only difference would be significantly more expensive to crunch ridiculously large numbers. So really not much benefit. I expect 64 to be the standard for quite a long time, maybe forever, because we have much bigger bottlenecks to worry about.
𝜯𝐞𝐡 𝜝𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐢maybe forever, because we have much bigger bottlenecks to worry about.
Well now I’m wondering what bottlenecks you have in mind. What do you believe to be the biggest bottlenecks for PCs in the near future?
ObsessionWe’re getting to the point where we can’t really make transistors much smaller, for one