Comment by the_other_guy

7 years ago

64-bit addressing is much more than enough for many decades to come or even forever!

In fairness, what we have right now is 48-bit addressing, not 64-bit.

I've already run into cases of programs figuring that a "64-bit" address space is basically infinite and running out of address space by trying to have tens to hundreds of thousands of 4GB memory mappings (not necessarily backed by RAM).