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by Gibbon1 498 days ago
With a 64 bit pointer you could make it bit addressable.
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pcwalton 498 days ago
At that cost of having your loads no longer be hardware load instructions, which would be bad for performance.
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Gibbon1 498 days ago
High performance memory systems aren't register based anyways.
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