Re: Plan 9 grids with AMD64 CPUs

>>seeing better 64 bit support in the current compiler.  vlong
>>kind of sucks at the moment.  Sape and I need it so we'll

it was fairly poor even for vlong file offsets, let alone calculations!

i hadn't realised how bad it could be until i happened to look
at the generated code for some reason.

>>about that.  However, if forsyth gets sufficiently excited
>>to work on the compiler, I'll probably buy a machine

i'm actually fairly depressed by what i've read but because of the way
they've done it it's probably not too hard to support.  come to think
of it, i haven't got a machine either but someone here was interested.
i was only being sour because there has been so much golly gosh
enthusiastic hype about it (not here, i hasten to add, but elsewhere),
and it doesn't live up to even the little i expected.  i hadn't really
looked at it before.  i stupidly had grown the impression that you
flipped a bit in a control register and had a decent architecture for
a change!  i can't believe they kept the page tables.  i'm hoping i've
missed something.