This is really amazing stuff. It appears that modern memory chips don’t loose their content immediately after power loss. Apparently, it takes two minutes to the loose their content completely. Moreover, you can cool the memory chip using regular dust remover spray. This will keep the memory content intact for at least 10 minutes. This […]

Table of contents Introduction What 64-bit support mean? What the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit anyway? General purpose registers What additional registers good for? So how good 64-bit really is? What about OS and software? Does that mean that paying extra money for 64-bit Windows XP/Vista worth it? How about Linux? IntroductionBACK TO TOC […]

Table of contents Introduction What 64-bit support mean? What the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit anyway? General purpose registers What additional registers good for? So how good 64-bit really is? What about OS and software? Does that mean that paying extra money for 64-bit Windows XP/Vista worth it? How about Linux? Introduction The obvious […]

This concludes a long research that I’ve made. I wanted to know if unaligned memory access is really that bad, or not a big deal. Eventually I made some quiet interesting discoveries. Read on.

Table of contents Introduction What 64-bit support mean? What the difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit anyway? General purpose registers What additional registers good for? So how good 64-bit really is? What about OS and software? Does that mean that paying extra money for 64-bit Windows XP/Vista worth it? How about Linux? Introduction The obvious […]