Re: [ANN] LuaJIT 1.1.4 released

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:51 +0100, Stefan Sandberg wrote:

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#_note-ewmppa> This leads to the 
> common use of the names /x86-64/ or *x64* as more vendor-neutral terms 
> to collectively refer to the two nearly identical implementations."

It would appear "x64" is used by those who want to sound trendy and
sales-guy friendly, rather than people who feel the need to communicate
meaning, then. :)

(Fortunately, it doesn't appear that Intel ever had a range of CPUs with
model numbers ending in 64.)

B.