Comment by cm2187
7 years ago
I think there are roughly 2^166 atoms on earth (translating 10^50 if I didn't mess up my maths). So clearly we don't need 256 bit addressing for any system!
7 years ago
I think there are roughly 2^166 atoms on earth (translating 10^50 if I didn't mess up my maths). So clearly we don't need 256 bit addressing for any system!
The problems of allocating memory addresses in global scale requires distributed probabilistic addressing or otherwise inefficient address space distributions.
You don't want to share the same compact memory allocator with the malloc(3) from the other side of the galaxy, or even different city.