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Doesn't this become less and less of an issue the more bits you add to your pointers? Like with 32 bits, you can't have one memory address per person on the pla
by jgon 6y ago
Doesn't this become less and less of an issue the more bits you add to your pointers? Like with 32 bits, you can't have one memory address per person on the planet earth, at 64 bits, you can have 1 pointer per atom that makes up the planet earth, and at 128 bits we're talking 1 address per atom in the known universe (or something like that, I haven't crunched the numbers exactly, this is more to give a flavor for the order of magnitude we're talking).
So if you cut off the top 8 bytes of a 32bit register and leave yourself with 24 bits, you can't even give a pointer to each person in Tokyo, but you cut off the top 8 bits of a 64 bit pointer you can still give a pointer to each atom of every human being on earth?