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

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

>   And there is quite literally NOTHING you cannot do in 32 bit that
> you can in 64.
> 
Yes there is.  You can mmap a single 5 GB virtual address space.

Now if you had said that there are no problems that you can not solve,
given enough time and processing power, with a 32 bit machine than you
could with a 64-bit machine, I would agree with you, and so would Mr.
Turing.

md