Axel Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There is an IA64 port somewhere, and I suspect other 64-bit >> architectures as well. Presumably they support >4Gb?
> I wonder if such an effort is worthwhile. If all pointers are suddenly > twice the size then the footprint of a program roughly doubles. Hmm..how about 32 bit pointers, but with 8 byte boundary alignment? This should give an effective pointer size of 35 bits, adressing up to 32Gb. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell