Re: C#, .Net, and Mono

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: C#, .Net, and Mono
Date: 20:43 on 27 Dec 2006
> > > And they're hardcoding explicit bit lengths in the definition of the class
> > > library?
>
> > How long do you think it will be until software starts using buffers
> > over 2 gigs in size.
>
> When I left my last job in May I had been using a system with 64-bit size_t
> for about a decade, so I would be utterly gobstruck if there's no software
> currently in existence that's reading and writing more than 2G at a shot.

I'm similarly both much amused and grief-stricken by the talk of
64-bit being something new and amazingly wonderful and just around the
corner. For Intel marketdroids, maybe so.

-- 
There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is
'dead'. -- Jack Cohen

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