What’s the difference, and will we one day have 128bit systems?
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To really ELIF it: in a computer, data is passed around in big pipes. Some pipes are 16, some are 32, some are 64 bits wide.
One of the main reasons pipes have gotten bigger over the years is the bigger the pipes are, the more memory you can add to a computer. I can’t think of a way to ELIF that, but it has to do with the fact that you need more information to keep track of all the RAM out there. (The address space is a lot larger, so you need more information to find where your data is being stored in memory.)
128 may come some day but it’s a long way off because each time you double the size of the pipes, you can store way, way more memory.
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