Smartphones and D

Andrew Wiley debio264 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 09:02:53 PST 2011


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

They already have address extension technologies in place to allow up to 1TB
of RAM with certain CPUs. It's not 64 bit, but it does fix the memory
problem.
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