From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,124905131f269735 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-26 08:08:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gnat and heap size Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:53:26 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9osq5a$crn$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <1001442590.557811@news.drenet.dnd.ca> <%26s7.4950$ev2.8194@www.newsranger.com> <9oqs5k$jjq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9osjpt$a5l$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1001516010 13175 136.170.200.133 (26 Sep 2001 14:53:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Sep 2001 14:53:30 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13401 Date: 2001-09-26T14:53:30+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Larry Kilgallen" 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.