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Comment by red75prime

7 years ago

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?

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