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

[Thomas Charron]

On 2/17/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> >   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.

  *sigh*

  True enough..

  But then one must look at it another way.  If you didn't have to,
why would you?  :-)

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-- Thomas