Smartphones and D

Daniel Gibson metalcaedes at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 03:51:49 PST 2011


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<no at spam.sp>  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.


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