On 29/05/2020 22:03, Gareth Evans wrote:
> On 29/05/2020 21:20, druck wrote:
>> On 28/05/2020 12:49, Gareth Evans wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> I'm afraid this makes no sense at all. Both ARMv7 (32 bit) and ARMv8
>> (ARMv8) can handle data of 8, 16, 32, and 64 bit widths.
>
> It makes perfect sense in the context of the discussion about a
> Dreadnought language that has ONLY 64 bit variables.

No, its still gibberish. BASIC and C running on 8 bit machines could
have 32 bit variables. Having the size of the variable match the size of
the processors register size is the most efficient combinations, but it
in no way precludes using larger (or smaller) variables in any language.

---druck

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