From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 20:17 on 27 Dec 2006 Subject: Re: C#, .Net, and Mono > > And they're hardcoding explicit bit lengths in the definition of the class > > library? > How long do you think it will be until software starts using buffers > over 2 gigs in size. When I left my last job in May I had been using a system with 64-bit size_t for about a decade, so I would be utterly gobstruck if there's no software currently in existence that's reading and writing more than 2G at a shot.
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: 20:43 on 27 Dec 2006 Subject: Re: C#, .Net, and Mono > > > And they're hardcoding explicit bit lengths in the definition of the class > > > library? > > > How long do you think it will be until software starts using buffers > > over 2 gigs in size. > > When I left my last job in May I had been using a system with 64-bit size_t > for about a decade, so I would be utterly gobstruck if there's no software > currently in existence that's reading and writing more than 2G at a shot. I'm similarly both much amused and grief-stricken by the talk of 64-bit being something new and amazingly wonderful and just around the corner. For Intel marketdroids, maybe so.
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