16MB static arrays again...

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 07:50:25 UTC, Tomer Filiba wrote:
> #WEKA #INDUSTRY
>
> I found this post from 2007 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/fdspch$d3v$1@digitalmars.com that 
> refers to this post from 2006 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/37038.html#N37071 -- and I still don't realize, why do static arrays have this size limit on them?
>
> [...]

There was this thread last week
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/not418$mcr$1@digitalmars.com
with a technical work-around.
But you are right that there is no technical justification for 
that limit to exist.