On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 12:21:04 UTC, Sergey Podobry wrote:
On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 11:23:26 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 19:49:11 UTC, Sergey Podobry wrote:
Remember that virtual address space is limited on 32-bit
platforms. Thus spawning 2000 threads 1 MB stack each will
occupy all available VA space and you'll get an allocation
failure (even if the real memory usage is low).
Sorry, but someone who tries to run highly concurrent server
software with thousands of fibers on 32-bit platform is quite
unwise and there is no point in taking such use case into
account. 32-bit has its own niche with different kinds of
concerns.
Agreed. I don't know why golang guys bother about it.
Because of attitudes like shown in that thread
https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
people who do not really understand why 32 bit systems are a
really problematic even if the apps don't use more than 2 GiB of
memory.
Here's Linus Torvalds classic rant about 64 bit
https://cl4ssic4l.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/linus-torvalds-about-pae/ (it's
more about PAE but the reasons why 64 bits is a good thing in general are the
same: address space!)
