Comment by stochastic_monk
7 years ago
Current x86 architectures only use 48 bits for addressing. That’s still enough to address ~280TB of RAM. I expect that to change before upgrading to 128-bit pointers.
7 years ago
Current x86 architectures only use 48 bits for addressing. That’s still enough to address ~280TB of RAM. I expect that to change before upgrading to 128-bit pointers.
128 bits are nearly enough to address every atom in the Universe. Such pointers are mostly a waste of memory space.
> I expect that to change before upgrading to 128-bit pointers.
Or the joke was wasted on me. Did you mean it will never be feasible?