New slides about Go

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Oct 16 10:49:05 PDT 2010


Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Seems a bad idea to force the overhead of that, but it should
>>> definitely be available as an option. Contrary to what Walter and
>>> Andrei seem to think, 32-bit systems are still very much alive and
>>> will be for quite awhile longer. Especially when you remember that
>>> there are more computers out there than just desktops and servers.
>>> (Ex: When is a phone ever going to need 64-bit? Eventually maybe, but
>>> certainly not anytime soon.)
>> 16 bit processors died around 15 years after the introduction of 32 bit
>> ones, even for embedded systems. If history repeats itself, figure 32
>> bit ones have about 5 years to go!
>>
> 	Funny thing is we still use some 8-bit microcontrollers in some
> situations :) But you're right, as soon as we need something more we
> go directly to 32 bits without stopping in the 16 bits square.

I can tell 16 bits is dead as a doornail because the 16 bit tools biz has dried 
up to nothing.


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