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thats not the question you have to ask though. your cpus arent capable of 32 bit calculations anymore... so the questions is: is the software emulation of your
by y4mi 8y ago
thats not the question you have to ask though.
your cpus arent capable of 32 bit calculations anymore... so the questions is: is the software emulation of your OS for 32 bit more efficient than the programming language overprovisions.
- zaarn 8y agoThe CPU is still perfectly capable of 32bit calculations. Even 8 bit calculations. What you can't do is use 32bit pointers (though, strictly, you can, but x86-32 isn't well supported, I wonder why?)
- y4mi 8y agoYou are technically right, but only because I expressed myself very poorly. The CPU is naturally still able to do 32 bit calculations. What you can't do is run a 32 bit application without emulation after a 64 bit system has booted. The libraries are obviously also required, but it still won't be able to start without the emulation adding 0 to the memory blocks.
- Shikadi 8y agoSource? Not that I don't believe you, I just don't understand from your comment
- SIXTWOSIX 8y agoIt's not -entirely- true but it's not false, either as far as I'm aware. Windows in specific uses WOW64 -- Windows 32 on Windows 64. It's an emulation layer that doesn't actually hamper performance but does do things a bit differently than a native OS -- such as running all 32bit programs in 'user mode' rathe than with elevated permissions. You can get a brief synopsis here - https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-windows7-vista64-support-32bit-applications.htm https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-windows7-vista6...