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It would be good if someone who understands this topic well -- and I do not -- would explain why bit-level parallelism has run out of steam. Why not 128-bit or 256-bit processors? Is it just that the benefits of bit-level parallelism apply mainly to arithmetic, and 32- or 64-bit word sizes comfortably accommodate numbers within the range of most calculations? Or is there another reason?

Eodell (talk) 03:48, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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