On 12 June 2010 08:00, Kris Maglione <maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> The read operation can only fetch data the size of
> half of the entire addressable memory space of a given machine in one call
Except it can actually fetch as much data as is addressable in memory
in a single call, if the kernel and library are tailored to.
> which has no practical implications whatsoever.
Except efficiency: the fewer system calls required to read the data
the fewer mode switches required, and mode switches are very
expensive.
> But I'm frankly not interested in fluffy notions about the future, because
> they're irrelevant.
I am interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going
to spend the rest of our lives [1].
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xes0F36eTJA
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