From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: gnat and heap size
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:53:26 -0400
Date: 2001-09-26T14:53:30+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9osq5a$crn$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: RUhYu4tuVLZU@eisner.encompasserve.org
I suspect that 2**64 is probably large enough to count up all of the atoms
in the entire universe or something similarly absurdly large. Or at least
all the iron oxide molecules on the planet Earth. :-) Something my
calculator computes as 1.844674407 * 10**19. (18 quintillion, if I'm
counting zeros correctly?)
I doubt that it would be practically possible to construct a disk big
enough to hold 2**64 bytes of data as a result. :-)
MDC
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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
news:RUhYu4tuVLZU@eisner.encompasserve.org...
>
> Since then they have ported to Alpha, and the current page table
> arrangement does not particularly limit virtual memory to be any
> smaller than the amount of paging space you can fit on a disk.
> But I do not believe Compaq offers any disks with 2**64 bytes
> of space. I don't believe they even offer any machines that
> could hold that much disk space in total, even if you could
> afford it.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-25 18:29 gnat and heap size Claude Marinier
2001-09-25 20:46 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-25 21:15 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-25 21:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 13:04 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 13:39 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 14:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 14:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 14:53 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2001-09-26 17:21 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-26 18:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-26 18:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 7:20 ` Martin Dowie
2001-09-26 21:16 ` Pascal Obry
2001-09-27 13:07 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 15:25 ` Holographic memory (Was: gnat and heap size) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-09-27 16:26 ` gnat and heap size Dale Pennington
2001-09-27 16:57 ` Darren New
2001-09-27 16:58 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-27 19:19 ` tmoran
2001-09-26 14:13 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-27 10:39 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-09-25 22:40 ` David Starner
2001-09-26 2:12 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 13:36 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 2:13 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-26 13:29 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-25 23:10 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-09-26 9:09 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-09-26 13:58 ` The decline of programming civilization (was: gnat and heap size) Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 13:44 ` gnat and heap size Claude Marinier
2001-09-26 14:55 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-26 20:45 ` Erik Johannessen
2001-09-27 6:12 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-09-27 18:23 ` erij
2001-09-27 9:02 ` Erik Johannessen
2001-09-27 13:27 ` Gerald Kasner
2001-09-27 17:48 ` erij
2001-09-27 14:11 ` Peter F. Gath
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