[OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

> It's not *end-user computing*.  End-user computing is stuff my mom does, or your Aunt
> Marge or the high school teenager.  :-)

Sorry, I thought we were talking English, and where I come from, and
"end user" is *anyone* that *uses* the software instead of making it or
administering it, whether they do it as a job or not.  Even developers
are "end users" of compilers and other tools, since they use them to do
their work.

I gave you the term the industry uses for what you seem to be talking
about is "commercial computing" or "home computing" and for the most
part the answer is that a 64-bit address space is not something they
need, although they can benefit from the rest of the 64-bit
architecture.

I will note, however, that you can not mmap in an 8GB flash into a
single address space with a 32-bit processor.

md