On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 10:55 AM Sven Hartrumpf hartrumpf@gmx.net wrote:
Of course one important drawback is that you are limited to 32 bit
references and headers, so only 4G RAM can be accessed (at best) and objects are limited to 16M bytes in size (so forget about reading large files into a string or computing pi to 100 million digits!).
Thanks. I forgot to mention these limitations.
In addition: x32 exists only on Linux AFAIK and Linus wants to deprecate it. No known commercial Linux distro supports it. The issue of deprecation was raised last December, and I imagine it will continue to be raised.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org In my last lifetime, I believed in reincarnation; in this lifetime, I don't. --Thiagi