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> Creating a brand-new API today which cannot handle pointers wider than 64 bits seems a bit short-sighted 2^64 can address over 16 petabytes. I’m not sure whe
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
> Creating a brand-new API today which cannot handle pointers wider than 64 bits seems a bit short-sighted
2^64 can address over 16 petabytes. I’m not sure when I’ll be working on that scale, but n by the time it happens, Java can introduce new data types like BigLong to handle it.