[Gllug] On Linux, fast, it is

John Hearns john.hearns at cern.ch
Wed Jun 12 13:45:34 UTC 2002


On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:14, Martyn Drake wrote:
> John Hearns wrote:
> 
> > My guess is that AMD Sledgehammer could be big here.
> 
> Depends really.  Will Alias|Wavefront and all the other big boys in the 
> post-production/visual-effects industry port their code to 64-bit X86 
> code?  What about Apple now that it's bought Shake (and now very 
> possibly Silicon Grail's Rayz)?
> 

> 
> The fact that this processor will run either in 32-bit or 64-bit mode 
> will at least allow folk to run their existing applications until 
> developers move over to 64-bit code.
> 
Anyone know much about compilers, commercial or otherwise,
for these things?



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