On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Daniel Gibson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Am 31.01.2011 11:52, schrieb retard: > > Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:36:44 +0100, Daniel Gibson wrote: >> >> Am 30.01.2011 13:29, schrieb Michel Fortin: >>> >>>> On 2011-01-30 03:05:59 -0500, Gary Whatmore<[email protected]> said: >>>> >>>> D's main focus currently is 32-bit x86 servers and desktop >>>>> applications. This is where the big market has traditionally been. Not >>>>> everyone has 64-bit hardware and I have my doubts about the size of >>>>> the smartphone markets. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I think the important point here is ARM, not smartphones. >>>> >>>> ARM processors will soon start to enter other markets, mainly the >>>> server and laptop markets, >>>> >>> >>> I'm not sure about these markets, because ARM is stuck to 32bit, 64bit >>> ARM seems to be (almost?) impossible as far as I know. >>> >> >> It will take years before the 64-bit address space starts to make sense >> in portable systems. >> >> > Again: "ARM processors will soon start to enter other markets, mainly the > *server* and laptop markets," > So while you /may/ be true about laptops, servers definitely can use more > than 4GB of RAM. > They already have address extension technologies in place to allow up to 1TB of RAM with certain CPUs. It's not 64 bit, but it does fix the memory problem.
