>Wait, are you talking about the data/address bus, or are you talking about >the size of the registers? Better define "efficient use of data" better >before you argue this one too far, I think. > >-- >"To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous I believe that the mips has a 64-bit data bus. I had generally assumed that the address bus was always twice as wide as the data bus, but that's because I've only coded assembly on the z80 along with the fact that I'm probably being a dumbass by thinking like that. Anyway, I digress. As for "efficient use of data", what I meant by that was that since the data bus allows the processor to process 64-bit chunks at a time as opposed to 32-bit chunks, the cpu can handle more data in a given instant. Basically, I was commenting on the wider bus. BTW, if any of you know much about the mips and say that the data bus is only 32 bits wide, and it's the registers that are 64 bits big, please let me know. ---------- The Fishy One's Infinite Wisdom #15: "A man doesn't need a scarecrow if he's got penguins." New wisdom every week! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com