Scott, > No, but it's great to device to access data, perhaps even bits pulled out > from a huge pile, and preferably pulled out extremely quickly. > And, anyway, why shouldn't it be a huge database machine???
I meant, it is not designed to serve as a database machine. I can’t possibly imagine PostGreSQL running on an iPhone, for example, and serving thousand of requests per second… > As I said earlier, 64-bit enables techniques that are not practical in > 32-bit, because you won't run out of address space due to fragmentation. 64-bit address space might mask fragmentation at the virtual memory level, but you will probably experience it at the real memory level, i.e. after the MMU; the more so, since iOS does not support swapping. How much memory does the iPhone 5S have? More than 4 GiB? Probably not. I fear many people will think that with 64-bit pointers they get a lot of usable space, and then see their code crippled by low memory warnings. Aside from this, I concur it might be handier for Apple to converge all its platforms to 64-bits. Vincent _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
