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That way lies madness

That way lies madness

Posted Sep 6, 2011 3:30 UTC (Tue) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: That way lies madness by dlang
Parent article: The x32 system call ABI

Isn't this likely to be superior enough to motivate desktop distributions to switch to an x32 user space with a 64 bit kernel, with x86-64 libraries as extensions for those applications that actually benefit from a large address space?


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