Finally, the best solution is 64-bit address spaces.
You will definitely cause paging if you make lavish use of these
green pastures...
And don't think it is impossible to run out of VM on a 64-bit
system. Someday someone will. Would he be checking for nil returned
for malloc? ;-)
Jan
Everyone should always check malloc returns! Actually it's quite
easy to run out of VM on a 64-bit system - all you need is a full
startup disk.
64-bit addressing does make it much easier to deal with large
datasets though - Windows x64 on a machine with 16GB of RAM
absolutely whips the G5 in our applications (sadly)...
Cheers,
Steve.
Steve Baxter
Software Development Manager
Improvision
+44-2476-692229
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