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Gareth Evans   wrote:
>On 28/05/2020 12:45, Gareth Evans wrote:
>> On 28/05/2020 11:36, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>> Do keep up at the back..
>>>
>>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/
>>>
>>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=275370
>>>
>>> -Gordon
>>>
>>
>> That is excellent news.
>>
>> I wonder if it also includes the necessary assemblers and compilers to
>> produce 64 bit programs?
>>
>> IMHO this will be computing coming of age for the man
>> on the Clapham Omnibus, for no longer will it be necessary
>> to program one's way around the limitations of processor design
>> because with so much memory, take the same design principle
>> that made Admiral Fisher's Dreadnought battleship design
>> so capable, big guns only, make all storage, even for
>> 8 bit bytes, 64 bits.
>>
>> 64-bit-only BCPL anybody?
>>
>
>PS ! ! ! !
>
>Not forgetting that all instructions encode into 32 bits, so
>a compiler based on 64 bit data alone will be struggling to
>output dollops of 32 bits, perhaps a variation of the PEEK and
>POKE so favoured by early domestiv BASICs?

BCPL compiles into a bytecode. This is then interpreted by a
C program (at least on most modern Unix/Linux systems).

There is a native ARM code generator but I've never looked at it.

-Gordon

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