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
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