From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion)
Date: 1997/04/06
Date: 1997-04-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bc42b0$a88691c0$90f482c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E874Gq.91M@world.std.com
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote in article
> I won't complain if I can't allocate an array bigger than 2**32 bytes on
> a machine that has a 32-bit address space. That's a lot different from
> telling me I can't allocate a 1000-bit integer on such a machine.
In ten years time we'll all have 64-bit machines with hundreds of Gb of RAM
(as well as content-addressed memory etc.) and look back at 32-bit
addressing as ludicrously small. "How ever did we manage with such tiny
amounts of memory?" we will ask each other ;-)
Nick.
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1997-04-02 0:00 What Happened While I Wasn't Looking? Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion) Clayton Weaver
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Architectures Nick Roberts
1997-04-07 0:00 ` What Happened While I Wasn't Looking? Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion) Jon S Anthony
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1997-04-08 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
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