Re: gnat and heap size

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

>  I doubt that it would be practically possible to construct a disk big
> enough to hold 2**64 bytes of data as a result. :-)

Well well... Somebody said that only 3 or 4 ENIAC would be needed in the
world because it was so powerful... 

What about holographic memory :)

<<
Holographic memory offers the possibility of storing one terabyte (TB) of data
in a sugar-cube-sized crystal. A terabyte of data equals 1,000 gigabytes, 1
million megabytes or 1 trillion bytes. Data from more than 1,000 CDs could fit
on a holographic memory system. Most computer hard drives only hold 10 to 40
GB of data, a small fraction of what a holographic memory system might
hold. There are several reasons for developing a three-dimensional data
storage. It will be able to store more information in a smaller space and
offer faster data transfer times. In this edition of How Stuff Will Work, you
will learn how a holographic storage system might be built in the next three
or four years, and what it will take to make a desktop version of such a
high-density storage system.
>>

Ok, that's only 1 terabyte on a sugar-sized disk... But what about next
revolution, the one that will dwarfed out the holographic memory :)

Pascal.

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