On 12 June 2010 08:00, Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote: > The read operation can only fetch data the size of > half of the entire addressable memory space of a given machine in one call
Except it can actually fetch as much data as is addressable in memory in a single call, if the kernel and library are tailored to. > which has no practical implications whatsoever. Except efficiency: the fewer system calls required to read the data the fewer mode switches required, and mode switches are very expensive. > But I'm frankly not interested in fluffy notions about the future, because > they're irrelevant. I am interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives [1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xes0F36eTJA cls
