64 bit F7

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> writes:
>    My question is why would anyone want to have an odd ball F7 with
> 64bit logic? It makes no sense to me.

Some programs that need lots of memory or lots of virtual memory work
much better when they have access to a 64-bit address space.

I probably will not even bother supporting 32-bit processors in my
mapping program.  The US streetmap database is 13 Gigs and I have
little interest in writing the complex and error-prone code just to
get around the 32-bit cpu's limitations.  Lots of database
applications have a similar problems.  They either spend lots of
efforts to squeeze a potentially large database into a small 4-Gig
address space, or they limit the program to deal with < 4Gig
databases.

-wolfgang
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