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@Li @kemona_halftau @LunaDragofelis because it's powers of two, not a reference to the "number of bits" of the CPU.
I.e. it's intentionally jank.

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@kemona_halftau@sharkey.skydevs.me the number row should really be:
N8, N16, N64, N32, N32, N32, N64, N64
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@aliceif @kemona_halftau honestly even calling the N64 the N64 is a stretch

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@endrift @aliceif @kemona_halftau Not really N's fault that MIPS compilers of the time sucked & didn't have proper support for an ILP32 64-bit ABI

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@fincs @aliceif @kemona_halftau the bigger problem AIUI was the too-narrow bus to make it really worth it at all

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@endrift @fincs @aliceif @kemona_halftau probably less of a problem with proper ILP32 but it’d probably hurt perf quite a bit still

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