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On Sat, 31 May 2003 13:36:41 -0300, Alan Shiers wrote:

> Interesting...
> 
> When Windows2003 and other 64 bit OS's get released, will coding 
> be basically the same for the programmer, even though Microsoft, 
> Borland, and others may release 64 bit compilers?  

For Java programming, yes.  One of the central design ideas for Java is 
to isolate the programmer from differences in the underlying machine.  
Java code should run the same regardless of the underlying platform.

> I'm wondering to what advantage a programmer can make use of 
> programs intended for 64 bit OS's?

What is new about these machines that you would want to take advantage 
of?  I suspect that they will perform some operations faster (such as 
64-bit arithmetic), and the JVM for 64-bit machines should use the 
appropriate instructions to take advantage of that.  But there should 
not be any reason for the Java programmer to worry about that.

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Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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