All you ever wanted to know about 64-bit CPU's

[|)U(|(0F|)3@TH]

Came across some good articles today, figured I'd share them with anyone who's interested.

Arstechnica on x86-64:
http://arstechnica.com/cpu/03q1/x86-64/x86-64-1.html

Realworldtech.com on all major 64-bit contendors:
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?AID=RWT012603224711

Good stuff if you're curious about it.

[Yian]

I read the one at Arstechnica before but never seen the second one. Thanks a lot pal!

[|)U(|(0F|)3@TH]

No problem. The second one is actually referenced as one of the Arstechnica sources, but it's so thorough it's worth posting separately.

[sushi128]

and if you want information on the technical stuff (white papers, registers, etc...) best site would be www.sandpile.org :D

[ReDeeMeR]

Uhh cool, I didnt know Hammer had extended and more registers :D

Anyway to much technocal crap for me to swallow tonight(6 AM )... I always knew that software needs to be built to take advantage od 64bit otherwise there wont be much of improvement in preformance.