4GB of Ram should be enough for anyone. :-) On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:24:01 UTC+2, Peter Luschny wrote: > > 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 > >
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