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You don't need a 64-bit machine to have Perl be able to perform 64 bit integer arithmetic. You need a compiler who's able to deal with 64-bit arithmetic (you can even have a compiler that isn't able to produce binaries able to use 64 bit arithmetic on 64 bit platforms - for instance, SUN produced 64 bit platforms years before gcc was able to deal with 64 bit integers). And then when compiling Perl, enable the 64 bit integers.
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