7. Oktober 2015 20:05:11 UTC+2, bluescarni: > > Practically, it's an architecture that supports "natively" 64 bit ints but > the pointers are 32 bits wide. AFAIK, this is supposed to improve > performance for pointer-heavy workloads that do not need to allocate much > RAM but still benefit from the 64 bit ints. >
Wasn't it initiated by Donald Knuth's flame: "It is absolutely idiotic to have 64-bit pointers when I compile a program that uses less than 4 gigabytes of RAM." Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
